…. — Says his get together, as he has been indicted within the US state of New Jersey for insurance fraud, amongst different fees
The People’s Liberation Party (PLP) has claimed that its political chief Dr.Daniel E. Cassell is harmless of the insurance fraud fees leveled in opposition to him by the State of New Jersey.
Cassell, whose money made him a family identify politically, has been indicted by the Office of the Attorney General of New Jersey with first-degree cash laundering, second-degree theft by deception, and a number of counts of conspiracy, insurance fraud, and different fees outlined beneath.
Acting New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor (OIFP), additionally accused Cassell and his spouse, Bindu Cassell, of utilizing their psychological well being clinics to cover unreported earnings, and didn’t report “more than US$11 million in additional New Jersey-earned income on NJ non-resident income tax returns” from 2016-2018.
However, for Cassell’s get together, they imagine that their political chief is being wrongfully accused, and can be exonerated from all prison fees levied in opposition to him by the US State of New Jersey.
“The PLP would like to state emphatically that the accusations levied against its Vision/Standard Bearer remain ‘doctored allegations’ that can only be proven or denied through the presentation of hard facts or substantive evidence during court hearing or procedures and not by hearsay,” the get together’s National Chairman Tapple Doe, stated in a press release. “Indictment is not a guilty verdict but a process of proceeding to trial and as such, its Standard Bearer remains innocent until proven guilty in a court of competent jurisdiction in the United States.”
Doe famous that the get together stays hopeful and steadfast that Cassell would return to Liberia in time for the 2023 election to proceed his “crusade to liberate Liberia and its citizens from bad governance, segregation, deprivation, corruption, and other vices and societal ills that have kept them backward for several decades.”
He nevertheless questioned why his political chief’s case, which is being performed outdoors of Liberia’ has gained a lot nationwide consideration and is now getting used as a conduit to get on the get together and its chief “who has never stolen our country’s wealth and resources, neither has he been involved in our past atrocious civil war or committed any crime in Liberia.”
“We remain focused, determined and dedicated to building cells by consistently engaging our fellow citizens throughout the length and breadth of our country, and intervening to resolve the mountainous aged-old problems that they are faced with.”
“To this end, the PLP remains the only beacon of hope to liberate Liberia and its citizens and therefore, all patriotic and well-meaning Liberians should continue to put the interest of our country first by denouncing propaganda intended to injure the reputation of others, who have been in the vanguard of finding solutions to the barrage of problems the nation and citizens are currently encountering, and continues to worsen day by day.”
Cassell’s alleged crime, in keeping with Platkin, happened between January 2015 and October 2021, and that the New Jersey Office of the Insurance Fraud Protector started investigating him and his firm, Kwenyan Professional Health Services, LLC and Kwenyan and Associates, which operated clinics throughout New Jersey in 2019.
The corporations operated till October 2021. Officials stated Cassell, his spouse, and a few staff used the Kwenyan identify to cover earnings on tax returns — utilizing the clinics to hide the couple’s earnings in a US$1 million tax evasion scheme — and defraud Medicaid with a phony billing scheme. They additionally defrauded Progressive Insurance Company, officers stated.
Two of Cassell’s staff submitted 1000’s of false claims to Medicaid for psychological well being companies that had been by no means carried out, or had been billed incorrectly, New Jersey officers famous.
They are charged, together with Cassell, with second-degree conspiracy to commit well being care claims fraud, second-degree well being care claims fraud, third-degree conspiracy to commit Medicaid Fraud, and third-degree Medicaid Fraud.
Meanwhile, Doe has claimed that native media protection of the Cassell case is a smear marketing campaign that has been initiated by failed and grasping politicians who wish to see Liberian residents die in perpetual financial hardship and poverty “in the midst of the current administration plundering our country’s resources on their respective family members who are flagrantly flaunting their wealth in the eyes of the impoverished masses.”
Doe famous that the PLP shouldn’t be moved or deterred by the rising wave of “political propaganda being intentionally targeted at Cassell” and the get together forward of the 2023 basic and presidential elections.