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TALLAHASSEE, FL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that a Miami-Dade County man has been arrested on charges he defrauded the Florida Medicaid program out of more than $54,000. Jean Joseph Paul, 32, was arrested today by law enforcement officers with the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit with assistance from the Miami-Dade Police Department.

Acting on information received from the Agency for Health Care Administration, Medicaid Fraud investigators discovered that Jean Joseph Paul, who owned and operated God Cares, Inc., submitted numerous claims for services he never provided. God Cares, Inc. is a home health company that provides residential and non-residential care services on behalf of Medicaid recipients.

Paul is charged with one count of organized fraud, a first-degree felony, one count of grand theft, a second-degree felony and one count of Medicaid fraud, a third-degree felony. If convicted, he faces up to 45 years in prison and a $25,000 fine. The case will be prosecuted by Attorney General’s Office of Statewide Prosecution.