Operators of Lake Park sober home charged with receiving $2M in kickbacks
BOCA RATON — The family behind a Palm Beach County sober home is facing patient brokering charges for cheating the drug recovery industry, allegedly receiving more than $2 million in kickbacks from more than 20 patient referrals between 2017 and 2018.
Mimi Bieda, 61, and her two sons, 36-year-old Levi “Larry” Bieda and 33-year-old David Bieda, were arrested Wednesday and face charges in two schemes involving Academy Health Solutions, a sober home they operate at 252 10th St. in Lake Park. They also face money laundering charges amounting to $309,414.60, according to a probable cause affidavit for their arrest.
The Boca Raton family owns the addiction treatment and sober home facility in Palm Beach County, and portions of testing laboratories in Palm Beach and Martin counties, the report says.
The family’s involvement in one scheme is connected to the 2019 arrest of Adrian S. Rogers, who owned Jayde Laboratories, where the Biedas sent urine samples for testing. Rogers said he negotiated with Mimi and Larry Bieda for the sale of 20% interest of Jayde Lab around April 2017, through a company owned by the younger son David Bieda, the report said.
Mimi and Larry Bieda then directed their addiction treatment facility to send their patients’ urine samples to Jayde for testing. David Bieda’s company, Quickens Results, received “significantly more than 20% of the profits” of Jayde Lab during the period when the Biedas’ directed the urine samples to Jayde Lab, the report said.
Overall, the family received kickbacks amounting to $431,785.28 for the referral of more than 20 patients from Jayde Lab to Quickens Results between July 2017 and September 2018, the report said.
The other scheme involves patient brokering and money laundering among four companies owned at least in part by the Biedas: District Diagnostics, Quicken Results, Campus Wellness and Academy Health Solutions.
Bank accounts showed that
Bieda-related entities received more than $1.75 million from District Diagnostics between July 2017 and December 2018, the report said. Of that, $1.45 million went directly to Quicken from multiple District Diagnostic accounts, the report said.
Quickens Results also received more than $300,000 indirectly from District Diagnostics that was funneled through Campus Wellness bank
Group, LLC, a company owned by Larry Bieda’s wife, Danielle Hoberman, the report said.
The three Biedas face patient brokering and money laundering charges, the report said.