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Payback Time for Kingsport Man Who Stole from TennCare & ‘Friend’

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KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) — A registered sex offender has been ordered to pay about $460,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to TennCare fraud and theft charges.
A Sullivan County judge on Friday sentenced 53-year-old Danny Anderson of Kingsport to 15 years of probation after he pleaded guilty.
The charges stemmed from about $19,000 in TennCare benefits paid to Samuel Page, a resident of Holston Manor deemed eligible for benefits after he gave Anderson $460,000 from his accounts.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says Anderson transferred the funds from Page’s bank account between February and April.
Sullivan County Assistant District Attorney Teresa Nelson told The Times News it was unclear whether Page understood what he was doing when he gave his money to Anderson, who was convicted in 1989 of aggravated rape (http://bit.ly/ooKCN6 ).
The judge ordered Anderson to pay about $19,000 back to the TennCare program and return $370,000 to Page within the next 10 business days. He ordered Anderson to return the remainder of Page’s money, approximately $70,000, over the course of his probation.

Deal Struck on Memphis-Shelby School Merger

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After nine months of argument and acrimony, after a $1 million referendum and another $1 million in legal costs, the end to Shelby County’s schools consolidation standoff came quickly Wednesday, reports the Commercial Appeal.
The settlement U.S. District Judge Samuel “Hardy” Mays approved and began reading in his courtroom just before 3 p.m. calls for a 23-member unified countywide board to take over Oct. 1. It will oversee the winding down of operations of Memphis City Schools and the currently all-suburban Shelby County Schools, while also assuming responsibility for adopting a transition plan for a consolidated school system that begins with the 2013-14 school year.
Memphis Mayor A C Wharton, who appeared shortly before the deal was reached to give his assent, said the agreement prevents what could have been more years of legal and civic quarrels over schools.
Following his Aug. 8 order clarifying many legal issues, Mays held mediation sessions that ran most of Friday, Monday and Wednesday in order to hammer out a deal.
“The lawyers and the court have reached what I firmly believe to be a fair and equitable resolution of this controversy,” said Wharton, a longtime trial lawyer who was Shelby County mayor for seven years before winning the city post in 2009. “In many instances had it not been for the wisdom of (Judge Mays) and wisdom and patience of the many seasoned attorneys on this case, it would have dragged on for years.

Judge Rules in Favor of Memphis Schools Merger

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From the Commercial Appeal:
A federal judge ended the first round of the school-consolidation legal battle Monday by ruling that the Memphis City Schools charter was properly surrendered in February and that the current all-suburban-member Shelby County Board of Education is unconstitutional because it lacks Memphis representation.
U.S. District Court Judge Samuel “Hardy” Mays also ruled valid a new state law, known as Norris-Todd, aimed at guiding the merger of MCS and Shelby County Schools with the appointment of a 21-member transition committee.
Mays said consolidation must be completed in time for the beginning of the 2013-14 school year. MCS and SCS currently have about 150,000 enrolled students combined.
Mays directed the parties involved in the lawsuit — MCS, SCS, the Shelby County Commission, the Memphis City Council, the city of Memphis and the Tennessee Department of Education — to submit by Friday ideas about how to create a countywide school board giving Memphis proportional representation. Mays will discuss the case with the parties today. SCS filed the lawsuit in February.
See also Jackson Baker, who observes the judge follows the exact timetable set for the merger in legislation passed by the General Assembly earlier this year and known as the Norris-Todd law.