Clayton LaFond, age 61, and Kim LaFond, age 54, of Milton, Vermont, were convicted on September 16, 2014, in Vermont District Court for Windsor County, on two misdemeanor counts of False Pretenses. The convictions stemmed from the LaFonds’ submission of false timesheets in order to obtain payment for services that were not provided to a child while they were employed as home-based health care workers under the Children’s Personal Care program, a Vermont Medicaid program.
The LaFonds were sentenced to one to two years in jail, all suspended, and placed on two years of probation. The Court also ordered Clayton LaFond to pay $3,687, and Kim LaFond to pay $1,877, in restitution to the Vermont Medicaid program.
The case was investigated and prosecuted by the Medicaid Fraud and Residential Abuse Unit within the Vermont Attorney General’s Office with assistance from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General.
VT AG: Sept 18, 2014