A co-founder of Sumter-based Early Autism Project Inc. is facing the possibility of having to pay $9 million if she is convicted of embezzling money from Medicaid and TRICARE, an accusation the organization itself settled in 2018.
An indictment from a grand jury states Susan A. Butler, a Sumter native, and others planned and systematically conducted a scheme to defraud TRICARE and Medicaid by over-billing the agencies for autism-related and other services between January 2007 and June 2016.
Source: Sumter woman faces federal charges in $9M fraud scheme / The Sumter Item