Nursing home owner faces new lawsuit in Ida storm evacuation

Published January 13, 2023 1:43 PM

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana nursing home owner is facing a new lawsuit over evacuating residents to a squalid warehouse to ride out Hurricane Ida in 2021. Federal authorities accuse Bob Dean Junior of misspending millions of dollars in violation of federal regulations. The latest complaint was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Baton Rouge. Dean was already facing criminal and civil complaints. He lost state licenses and federal funding after crowding residents of seven nursing homes into a poorly prepared facility in Independence, Louisiana, about 70 miles northwest of New Orleans.

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