LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – An Arkansas mental health treatment company says it’s working to purchase the Arkansas operations of a similar Missouri company tied to a political corruption investigation.
Hot Springs-based Quapaw House Inc. CEO Casey Bright told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that Preferred Family Healthcare of Springfield has signed a letter of intent to sell and details, including the price, are being worked out.
PFH lobbyist Russell Cranford has pleaded guilty to bribing convicted former state Sen. Jon Woods, former Rep. Henry Wilkins IV, who pleaded guilty, and an unidentified legislator.
An attorney for former state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson has said Hutchinson is the unidentified lawmaker and denied wrongdoing. Hutchinson has since been charged with unrelated crimes.
Former state Rep. Eddie Wayne Cooper has pleaded guilty to embezzling from PFH and a former company executive is charged with Medicaid fraud.
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