ATLANTA, GA - News release from Atlanta Office of Federal Bureau of Investigation

Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Brian D. Lamkin announces, on behalf of the FBI’s Northwest Georgia Safe Child Task Force, the following arrest at Chatsworth, Georgia:

Cary Rhodes, 57 years of age, of Taylorsville, Georgia (Bartow County), was arrested on Thursday, October 27, 2011, by FBI agents and Task Force Officers after coming to the attention of undercover officers on the internet. 

ATLANTA, GA – News release from Georgia Department of Law

Kenneth A. Thisdale, a DeKalb County School System speech pathologist, pled guilty today in DeKalb County Superior Court to one count of Medicaid Fraud (O.C.G.A. § 49-4-146.1(b)) for a false billing scheme.

Thisdale was employed by a company which had entered into contracts to provide speech therapy services to students in DeKalb County Schools.

Many of the students who received therapy services pursuant to the contracts were Medicaid recipients.

ATLANTA, GA - News release from the Georgia Department of Law

Former Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS) employees Gene Tell of East Point, 36, and Kristy Nicole Williams of Decatur, 28, were sentenced today in federal district court before Judge Thomas Thrash on one count of Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud and two counts of Wire Fraud relating to a scheme to defraud the United States Department of Agriculture by issuing fraudulent food stamp electronic benefit transaction ("EBT") cards.