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In this episode of American Greed, Kenny
Chapman catapults from personal
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trainer to mogul, running a drug
treatment business.
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He made a massive amount of money. We're
talking millions of dollars.
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But something isn't right.
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Chapman seems to have made it far too
big, too fast.
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When you go from making five to six
figures, one year to making $10 million
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the next year, that's an indicator.
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These are things that we look for when
we're doing investigations.
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And Chapman's halfway houses, or sober
homes, are anything but sober.
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Drug use was rampant at the sober homes.
We know that Chapman himself directly
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provided the drug to keep people high.
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And beyond the drugs...
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Chapman further exploits some of his
female clients.
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He was able to twist these women into
becoming prostitutes for him.
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You know, he became a pimp.
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Kenny Chapman hauls in more than $16
million off the backs of vulnerable
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clients.
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Kenny Chapman saw a chance to make a lot
of money and didn't care who he hurt to
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make that happen.
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It wasn't like, you know, he's a really
bad guy.
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It was like the devil himself had walked
in this room.
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It's September 2015.
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And Kenny Chapman is living large.
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He buys a million -dollar mansion in
Boynton Beach, Florida.
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All off the proceeds of his booming drug
rehab business.
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He's making his fortune by seemingly
getting people off of drugs.
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I started using... Like these patients.
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who agreed to appear in this promotional
video for Kenny Chapman's clinic called
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Reflections Treatment Center.
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He's never, never, ever turned his back
on me, never.
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The owner, Kenny Chapman, has really
helped me through a lot.
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I've known him for two years before the
treatment center was even established.
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And, I mean, I call him at two in the
morning, he picks me up.
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Chapman certainly has some people
singing his praises.
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But are his clients really getting
clean?
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Kenny Chapman's facilities had the
reputation that you could use drugs.
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were available.
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There were just certain requirements
about attending treatment so that they
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could bill the client's insurance.
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Kenny Chapman's road to riches starts
modestly as a fitness instructor.
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But the married father of four also has
a growing side business.
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He's operating several halfway houses,
also known as sober homes.
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As the name implies, sober homes are
domiciles where recovering addicts live
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together and are supposed to help each
other stay clean.
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There are usually strict curfews.
There's a house manager usually who
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that everybody's staying clean and
sober.
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There's some neighborhoods where you
have a half dozen sober homes there. The
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good ones you won't even notice.
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And opening a sober home is easy.
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There was no lights and things, no
requirements to open a sober home.
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So you can go down any residential
street in South Florida and take a three
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-bedroom, two -bedroom house.
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Open it today as a sober home.
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While living at a legitimate sober home,
patients should receive outpatient care
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at a licensed treatment center.
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Treatment is administered by a
healthcare professional and includes
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therapy and one -on -one counseling.
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But with Kenny Chapman's sober homes and
the treatment centers he works with,
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a different rehab model is in play.
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With Penny's Places, people knew that
they could go there and get high, and
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did not have to be sober. I mean, he was
preying on these people's addictions
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and profiting off of it.
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Chapman profits by cutting deals with
shady treatment centers.
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He started partnering with these
treatment centers.
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and basically selling his insured
patients to the treatment centers. And
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the treatment center collected money
from the billings that Kenny Chapman
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generated, the treatment centers would
pay money back to Kenny.
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A fraudulent treatment center could be a
money -making bonanza, providing
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limited actual services coupled with
enormous billing, covered by insurance.
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The supposed services provided, the
therapy sessions, the doctor's visits,
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kind of thing, those were billable
services.
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So if you get a lot of kids in the room
and you have this three -hour session,
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or at least you billed a three -hour
session, you're talking $40 ,000 to $50
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,000 in bills just for that therapy
session on that single day.
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Crooked treatment centers also make huge
profits.
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Overbilling for urinalysis drug testing.
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You're taking a $3 cup and turning it
into thousands of dollars in fraudulent
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billing. I mean, that's more than the
markup on crack cocaine.
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Kenny Chapman does the math.
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Why settle for just the kickbacks if you
can get in on the action, too?
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He decides to expand his business and
open his own treatment center.
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But Chapman faces obstacles.
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He has no qualifications.
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And he's got a prior conviction for
credit card fraud.
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The important thing about that was that
it prohibited him from being involved in
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the substance abuse treatment center as
an owner, as anybody who had contact
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with patients.
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But Chapman cleverly buries his past by
putting the business in the name of his
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wife, Laura, who was seen with him in
this photo from a treatment center
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directory.
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Then he finds physicians willing to sign
on as staff professionals.
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To open a treatment center, you need to
have a medical director and a clinical
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director. And he was able to find people
to do that early on.
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Some of these doctors at the beginning,
I don't think knew what they were
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getting into.
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And so in January 2014,
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Laura Chatman opens Reflections
Treatment Center in Margate, Florida.
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But Laura's involvement is in name only.
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Reflections is Kenny's baby.
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And he gets busy sending his sober home
tenants to Reflections.
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for his brand of drug treatment and sky
-high insurance claims.
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That's the whole thing, is you don't
make any money if these people don't
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insurance. And the better the insurance
plan, the more money you make off of it.
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But if their insurance starts to run
out, Chapman's Treatment Center,
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Reflections, offers a sinister kind of
fix.
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He actually would encourage relapses.
That would allow reflections to call the
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insurance company and say, Joey relapsed
on heroin.
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We need to continue to treat him. And
that might allow them to get two more
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weeks or a month more of approved
treatment.
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A relapse can be worth tens of thousands
in additional billing.
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And to attract new clients,
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Chapman mirrors the legitimate treatment
industry with evocative advertising,
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as seen here on his website.
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You'd see these beautiful websites.
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You'd see these wonderful pictures of
sunsets, people riding horses, beaches.
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You'd see well -written phrases about
recovery and addictions of disease. And
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turns out that these websites are just
con jobs.
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Jerry and Victoria Smith know the
heartache of drug abuse and false
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Their son Skyler battles heroin
addiction.
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Skyler grows up in the Northeast, the
older of two sons.
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Everybody who knew him said, what a
bright kid. He was involved in so many
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things. He loved sports. He was on t
-ball, baseball.
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He started playing piano at the second
grade.
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He could remember pages and pages of
classical music without even really
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studying it.
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There was a lot of great sides to
Schuyler.
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At 16, Schuyler gets a part -time job,
working with older kids, and things
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start to change.
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We were actually very excited because he
got a great job for the summer at a
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local resort. He was a busboy, and he
made a lot of money.
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But the other side of that was a lot of
these college kids would stay out late
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and party.
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We started seeing that he was maybe
drinking, and then substances started to
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come in. I would notice something.
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crunched up or cracked up on a mirror in
his room like he was snorting
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something.
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We're realizing that there's drugs
involved and we can't help him.
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After high school, Skyler's drug abuse
progresses to heroin.
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He stole our car.
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He was losing weight, things like that.
His looks were changing.
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And our world was crumbling and falling
apart at that point.
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I can tell you times where I was under
the table crying because my son called
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up. He was high somewhere and I couldn't
do anything.
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And there were times that I was driving
in the middle of the night trying to
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find him.
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Local rehab fails.
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And after meeting with therapists, the
Smiths decide to send Skyler to Florida
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for drug treatment.
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I was so naive. I actually packed him
Ralph Lauren shirts and the shorts and,
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you know, khakis. I even sent a tie with
him. Maybe he'll wear it to one of the
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meetings there, you know.
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And so we thought this was going to be
sort of like a one and done, send him
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down there.
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He's going to recover in a spa -like
setting.
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And this is the magic bullet.
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But the Smiths learn the cruel truth.
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There is no magic bullet.
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Especially when your son gets caught up
with Kenny Chapman.
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Next on American Greed, Kenny Chapman's
business is booming, but the
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actual treatment is a sham.
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Patients clearly being high, not being
able to just go through the motions of
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the treatment sessions.
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In southeast Florida, Kenny Chapman is
busy filling his rehab facilities with
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addicts struggling to get off drugs.
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Like Skyler Smith from Philadelphia.
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When you have a child in the active
throes of addiction, you no longer have
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son.
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Near Columbus, Ohio, Michelle Curran
also lives a parent's nightmare.
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Her daughter, Micaiah, is addicted to
heroin.
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When I first learned that she had a
problem, you're so scared for them,
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So your mind's going 100 miles an hour.
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You don't know what to do.
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You don't know where to turn.
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You want to be able to fix it. I could
fix everything for her when she was
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little, and I couldn't fix it.
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And that's hard.
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That's hard.
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At age 15, Micaiah is prescribed opiates
after she has an operation to remove a
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cyst from her lower back.
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The pain was just intense.
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So she was on Vicodin probably for three
weeks or so.
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I can remember this, them saying that
she could take two at a time every four
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hours, which for a 15 -year -old, that's
a lot.
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Micaiah recovers from the surgery.
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and moves on with her active young life.
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She was actually considered gifted, and
Micaiah actually attended college while
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she was in high school to give her that
challenge.
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She got very bored in high school.
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By age 20, Micaiah has two sons.
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She loves her boys, but her second
pregnancy aggravates that pain in her
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back.
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McKay would just describe it as this
terrible, terrible pain.
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And the further she got along in her
pregnancy, the worse it seemed to get.
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The young mother struggles with chronic
discomfort.
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She was taking pain pills, so your
Vicodin, your Percocet.
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She was taking more and more.
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You know, you get used to that, whatever
dose it would be.
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And at some point, your body needs
something stronger.
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someone actually shot her up with heroin
and said, this will take it away.
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And it was, from there on, it was
downhill.
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Michelle takes custody of her grandsons
and sends her daughter to Florida to get
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clean and sober.
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After relapsing, her mother says Micaiah
is making progress at a legitimate
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treatment center and sober home.
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Things are looking up.
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Until one day after a sobriety meeting,
Micaiah gets a tempting offer.
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A girl was there and said that, hey, if
you come live here, all you have to do
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is go find people to live here and
they'll pay you like $300 a week.
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Really laid back. It's pretty cool.
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Micaiah falls for the pitch.
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She enrolls at Chapman's Treatment
Center and moves into one of his sober
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That's a bad choice for an addict like
her, struggling with sobriety.
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They're in a very delicate place
because, you know, every day, every
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their life, they're hearing this voice
in their head that's telling them to use
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drugs, use drugs, use drugs. But when
you have somebody that's sleeping in the
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bed next to you using drugs, you have
almost no chance of resisting.
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And the supposed treatment at
Reflections is spotty at best.
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And often, it's non -existent.
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She wasn't having the therapy sessions
like she should have been. They weren't
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getting to the root cause of her
addiction.
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Instead, they were just feeding the
addiction and using her because she had
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insurance.
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We talked to insiders that described
patients as nodding off, patients
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being high, intoxicated, not being able
to just go through the motions of the
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treatment sessions.
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In fact, the treatment at Reflections is
most effective in just one area,
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billing.
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Chapman's corrupt physicians write
standing orders for treatment.
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lending the appearance of legitimacy to
those massive bills.
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Without that doctor's signature, that
test doesn't happen. The insurance bill
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isn't submitted, the insurance bill
isn't claimed, and nobody involved gets
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kickbacks that they were promised.
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Chapman is making more than $100 ,000 a
week.
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He and his wife, Laura, buy a mansion in
Boynton Beach, Florida.
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and portray themselves in promotional
materials as models of success.
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He and his wife cultivated a lifestyle
and made millions of
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dollars. They had beautiful homes, cars,
jewelry, vacation. They had a beautiful
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lifestyle all off the backs of our
children, our loved ones.
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Next on American Greed, Kenny Chapman
consoles worried parents that their
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addicted children are safe with him.
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People who are taking drugs lie.
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But you never think that the therapists
and the administrators of these places
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are lying.
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For Kenny Chapman, the money from his
bogus drug treatment business is pouring
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in.
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To keep his scam operating and growing,
all he needs is more
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bodies with insurance.
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And to attract new addicts, Chapman
solicits the service of agents known as
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brokers.
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That's how Kinney lured Micaiah Fike
into his operation.
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These recruiters or body brokers would
literally drive up and down the streets
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of cities like Delray Beach looking for
young people who might have suitcases or
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bags and looking for a place to stay.
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And they would approach them and recruit
them with promises of little or no
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rent, free cigarettes, you just come
stay at my house.
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If the answer is yes, the next question
is, what kind of insurance do you have?
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What the body broker will do is they'll
get on the phone with the sober home or
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the treatment center. They'll say, I got
a Blue Cross Blue Shield plan number
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123.
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They'll get a call back saying the plan
is approved, and they'll bring the
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patient into the facility, and they'll
get their kickback.
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Patients recruited to Chapman facilities
soon learn that lax rules and free
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stuff come with strings attached.
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This includes being subjected to
Chapman's cruel authority.
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What Kenny Chapman liked to do was
completely alienate a client from
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their friends and family, anyone that
might actually help them or support
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So he confiscated their cell phones,
their car keys.
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They had seen him physically throw male
clients out of the house.
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One of his tactics was to get face -to
-face, right in there, nose -to -nose,
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and tell you the things that he could do
to you.
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When concerned parents call, Chapman
pours on the charm and feigns that all
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well.
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Kenny Chapman will get on the phone and
convince the parents that the kids were
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liars and that the kids will benefit
from treatment, that this is just
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stage in the process.
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People in recovery lie.
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People who are taking drugs lie.
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But you never think that the therapists
and the administrators of these places
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are lying.
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And part of Chapman's con, as seen in
these photos from the Reflections
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is that he's also a positive role model
and a pillar of the community.
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He started this PR campaign to make
himself look legitimate.
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He would donate $1 ,000 to some charity
and have somebody write a press release
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and send it out to news organizations or
put it on their websites.
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To this end, Chapman gets former NBA
basketball star Keon Dooling to plug
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Reflections, as he does here in this
promotional video.
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Today I am here at the wonderful
facility called Reflections.
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It is a treatment center extraordinary
to the 10th power.
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American Greed reached out to Mr.
Dooling for comment but received no
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It appears that Keon Dooling is just
another mark in the Chapman racket.
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Chapman's enterprise is extensive.
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With a half dozen sober homes and his
Reflections Treatment Center, he runs it
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all with an iron fist to the point of
playing doctor.
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Mr. Chapman was at the treatment
facility every single day. He was in
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meeting. If, for example, a clinical
director recommended that a patient be
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transferred to an inpatient detox
facility, Mr. Chapman would overrule
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what he decided went.
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as law there.
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He did hold their medications, and from
what we've seen, it's literally like
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having someone's life in your hands
because you're controlling their
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you're controlling their recovery.
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Next on American Greed, Kenny Chapman's
exploitation of his clients
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hits a new low.
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He was able to twist these women into
becoming prostitutes for him.
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You know, he became a pimp.
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In South Florida, Kenny Chapman's drug
rehab empire is thriving.
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But there are cracks in the facade.
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Patients aren't recovering.
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21 -year -old Skyler Smith is battling a
heroin addiction while living a
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tortured existence at Kenny Chapman's
facilities.
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He's a thousand miles away from his
family in Philadelphia when his mother,
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Victoria, gets a call.
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Unfortunately, in my world, a phone call
from Florida is like that PTSD moment,
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okay? Because nothing good comes from
these phone calls, usually.
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The call is from a young woman in
recovery.
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She goes, I just escaped from Kenny
Chapman's sober home.
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He locks the windows. He locks the
doors. He bolts everything shut. He
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cell phones.
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I'm calling because Skyler wouldn't come
with me. He didn't want to be homeless.
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They're feeding him drugs. I'm afraid
he's going to overdose and die there.
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You've got to get him out of this house.
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Frantic, Victoria flies to Florida to
retrieve her son.
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And Kenny Chapman is nowhere to be
found.
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I arrived down to Florida on a Wednesday
and picked Skyler up at Reflections at
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9 a .m. I was so relieved to see him. He
was alive.
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And he looked rough.
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He certainly wasn't the beautiful boy
that just graduated from high school.
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And he's clearly high.
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The Smith sends Skyler to a legitimate
treatment center in Utah.
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Believing that Kenny Chapman is out of
their lives for good.
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Months later, Skyler is clean.
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But his addiction is still strong.
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And so is the lure of Florida.
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He's like, I think I have to go back to
Florida to recover. That's where I need
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to recover.
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Skyler falters and calls Kenny Chapman.
I think he wanted to use again.
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All right. Because that addiction was
still there. I mean, unless you have a
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good solid maybe year or two, you're
still in that danger zone. And that
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is still strong.
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Chapman buys a plane ticket for Skyler
and flies him back to Florida and into
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the Chapman system.
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Within days, Skyler is using heroin
again.
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Months pass.
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Until a broker finally sends him to
detox where he's plied with medication.
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Things only get worse.
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And it's been substantiated now through
doctors and reports
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that they over -medicated our son with a
cocktail of dangerous
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medications.
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Skyler flees detox, dazed and confused
from the combination of meds.
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Oh, it's a catastrophe.
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If you get the wrong meds, if you have
someone that's mentally unstable, you
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push them over the edge.
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They can end up back on the street
seeking out street narcotics. I mean,
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danger is that they end up dead.
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One day later, Skyler is arrested,
charged with robbing a business.
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He's sent to jail in Okeechobee,
Florida, while the investigation
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The collateral damage that has been done
by Kenny Chapman and
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the other facilities in Florida to the
parents, to the siblings, is
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insurmountable.
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Kenny Chapman is at the height of his
depraved success.
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And he's exploiting some of his female
clients in a new way, through the
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oldest profession.
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These are girls who are 18 to 22, 23
years old. They're addicted
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to drugs.
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They've already been abused.
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by the system, by becoming addicts and
going through everything that that
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involved. And they're trying to get
better. And instead, he saw a way to use
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them and their bodies to make money.
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Some of the women are moved to a female
-only sober home north of Palm Beach.
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Eventually, he kept these women captive
in a home and would have the men come
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to the home and rape them.
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And keep them high while doing it.
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Then, in April 2015, a turning point.
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A young woman escapes Chapman's brothel
and divulges everything to local law
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enforcement and the FBI.
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She relayed to us that while she was in
Kenny Chapman's care, she was actually
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confined to the house, kept high on
drugs, and...
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She was forced to engage in prostitution
with unknown male individuals who were
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brought over.
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I interviewed several women who had
escaped from him and were deathly
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of him. He had a psychological hold on
these women, which was truly sinister.
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By now, the opioid and rehab crisis is
spilling out all over South Florida.
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in fraud amounts, but we also saw the
number of overdoses that were happening
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associated with these quote -unquote
sober homes.
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We realized we had an epidemic in our
own backyard that we had to address.
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The FBI launches a wide investigation,
and one name keeps popping up.
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It was startling how many individuals we
were talking to would say, what are you
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guys doing about Kenny Chavin?
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Next, Kenny Chapman's greed has tragic
consequences.
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We received a call from the Boynton
Police Department, and I knew.
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I knew what happened.
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In South Florida, Kenny Chapman and his
drug rehab business draw the attention
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of law enforcement and the media.
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Journalist Lawrence Maurer does
extensive reporting on Kenny Chapman.
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It was not hard to find people who had
their own horror stories of dealing with
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Kenny Chapman who felt that the guy was
a psychopath.
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I had a probe of police records on this
guy.
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More than 100 pages of police reports.
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An incident in South Florida where he
had stolen people's cell phones.
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All kinds of trouble going on in the
sober homes.
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Welcome to Reflections Treatment Center.
We're located in... Chapman is
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notorious for putting forth an
impressive facade.
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Outwardly, everything seems legitimate,
as shown in this video from the
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Reflections website.
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But we also believe very much in healing
the mind, body, and the spirit.
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Dr. Barry Gregory is Reflections'
clinical director.
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He touts the holistic care offered at
Reflections.
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We really believe that our job is to
save lives, and frankly, that's what
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doing.
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And as for Chapman's satisfied clients,
appearing in this Reflections video, not
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all may be as it seems.
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Staff, everybody is friendly and, you
know, it's more like a family. They
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help you as much as they can.
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We interviewed several clients who
confirmed that that was them in the
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testimonial videos and they were high at
the time.
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Concerned parents are discovering the
truth about Chapman's facilities, that
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treatment is poor and their loved ones
are in danger.
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They're giving you drugs to keep you
high.
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Took all of her meds.
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Took her phone.
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Stealing her things.
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Having them lie to us.
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Nobody would talk to me.
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If I need to talk to the owner, I want
to talk to who's running the house.
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Michelle Curran is worried that her
daughter, Micaiah, has relapsed.
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Her repeated calls to reflections are
either unanswered or dismissed.
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Michelle's fears are justified.
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Micaiah is using heroin again.
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In July of 2016, Micaiah and a boyfriend
are suddenly evicted from a Chapman
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sober home.
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While still high, they're dumped at a
seedy motel.
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It's in a really bad part of town, and
just dropped him off there.
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and told them they were on their own,
basically, at like 2 or 3 in the
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Micaiah shoots up again, unaware that
the heroin is laced with carfentanil, an
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extremely powerful sedative.
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The following night, Michelle and her
husband, Chuck, are awakened by
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deputies and a victim's advocate at
their home in Ohio.
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He said, We received a call from the
Boynton Police Department, and I knew.
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I knew what happened. And they said,
your daughter was found in a motel,
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and she's passed away, and Chuck and I
just lost it. I mean,
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that was awful.
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I remember it like it was last night.
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It's hard because you don't ever want to
hear that.
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that your child is gone.
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Micaiah Fyke leaves behind grieving
friends, parents, and two young boys.
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Her death is not the first fatality
linked to Kenny Chapman, nor will it be
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last.
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Three months later...
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24 -year -old Allison Flory dies from a
heroin overdose inside a Chapman sober
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home.
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And at that point, we decided all the
FBI task force resources would now be
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poured into the Kenny Chapman
investigation.
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To build their case, investigators have
to follow the money.
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We got the court orders to get the
patient medical records and the paper
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And what we started to find was, The
evidence of Kenny Chapman's crimes were
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right there in the patient files.
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When an employee of Reflections
Treatment Center provides their own
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different patient and there's a claim
submitted under that patient, that right
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there is fraud 101.
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Next on American Greed, law enforcement
takes down Kenny Chapman and his corrupt
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empire.
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The case was extensive.
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I mean, they had him dead to rights.
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By December 2016, at least five overdose
deaths have been linked to Kenny
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Chapman and his drug treatment
facilities.
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After building a strong case against
him, law enforcement moves in.
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In one operation, we had multiple
arrests and search warrants. We arrested
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only Mr. Chapman, but a lot of
associates, sober home managers, a
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employees that he had.
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00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:40,640
Investigators find shocking evidence of
Chapman's negligence.
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00:36:41,020 --> 00:36:45,660
We found evidence that further supported
not only the healthcare fraud, but also
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the human trafficking portion of the
case. We found patients prescribed
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medications that were locked up in safes
controlled by Kenny Chapman. We found
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evidence of unnecessary testing that was
being done that can be billed at a high
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amount. There were dozens of...
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Private insurance companies that were
defrauded, and the largest victims were
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the largest insurance companies, Blue
Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, United Health,
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etc.
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00:37:12,060 --> 00:37:15,340
The fraud totals more than $16 million.
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00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:21,680
And beyond the money, there are the
broken lives.
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Repeated stories of struggling addicts
who failed to receive even remotely
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adequate treatment.
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00:37:31,240 --> 00:37:32,440
The case was extensive.
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00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:34,400
I mean, they had him dead to rights.
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00:37:34,720 --> 00:37:36,780
They had him trafficking women.
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They had him cheating on these drug
tests.
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They had former employees who were
cooperating with them against Kenny.
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doctors knowingly falsifying records.
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I mean, they had him.
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00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:54,100
Kenny Chapman faces a possible life
sentence.
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To avoid a trial, Chapman pleads guilty
to health care fraud.
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money laundering, and sex trafficking.
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00:38:05,550 --> 00:38:09,970
He believes he's facing a maximum of 15
years in prison.
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00:38:13,530 --> 00:38:17,270
At the sentencing hearing, emotions run
high.
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00:38:18,530 --> 00:38:22,930
The hearing was difficult to sit
through. It was an emotional hearing for
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of the families, for pretty much
everyone in the courtroom.
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It was very powerful.
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Kenny Chapman enters the courtroom in
shackles and is seated near the family.
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We finally get into the courtroom.
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Doors close.
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Kenny Chapman comes out.
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00:38:43,070 --> 00:38:46,570
It wasn't like, you know, he's a really
bad guy.
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It was like the devil himself had walked
in this room.
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00:38:53,610 --> 00:38:59,450
The judge allows victim impact
statements from a procession of grieving
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members and victims.
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The president were parents and family
members of young people that died in
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Chapman's care, and they were overcome
with emotion to where they couldn't even
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00:39:11,930 --> 00:39:18,090
speak. But some that were very angry
spoke directly to him with rage, really,
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00:39:18,170 --> 00:39:21,590
that, you know, he treated their kids in
this manner.
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00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:27,740
A young man in handcuffs, Skyler Smith,
reads a letter to the judge.
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00:39:28,500 --> 00:39:34,140
Skyler has been accused of robbery after
getting brokered to a detox center.
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And then out of my son's mouth comes
these words about how he was treated,
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the fact that he had his medication
taken away from him, about the fact that
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00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:48,780
they were given drugs, that he had no
food.
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They'd lock him out of the house.
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00:39:52,550 --> 00:39:56,190
And at the end of my son's talk to the
judge, he turns and he says, you know,
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this guy has blood on his hands. And I
am here to be a testimony to the people
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00:40:01,930 --> 00:40:06,490
who died and to the women that were
raped that this guy did it.
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00:40:08,650 --> 00:40:15,250
And Kenny is sitting there in his blue
jumpsuit, hands and ankles shackled,
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00:40:15,250 --> 00:40:16,890
staring straight ahead, completely
emotionless.
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00:40:17,830 --> 00:40:20,290
The victim's statements are persuasive.
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00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:27,200
The judge responds by handing Kenny
Chapman an additional 12 plus years.
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A 27 and a half year sentence in federal
prison with no chance for
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00:40:34,860 --> 00:40:35,860
parole.
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00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:40,920
Kenny's wife, Laura Chapman, also
appears in court.
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00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:48,440
Through sobs of apology, Laura pleads
guilty to making false statements in
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establishing the business.
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She is sentenced to three years in
prison.
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00:40:55,660 --> 00:41:02,660
As for Chapman's other accomplices, the
crooked doctors, sober home managers,
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00:41:02,780 --> 00:41:09,760
and body brokers, they get sentences
ranging from 18 months to 10 years.
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We charged and convicted seven
individuals in addition to Mr. Chapman.
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American Greed contacted Chapman's
attorney.
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00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:20,520
But he had no comment.
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00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:29,940
The result of Kenny Chapman and other
drug treatment frauds is that South
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00:41:29,940 --> 00:41:36,900
Florida has created a sober homes task
force to shut down criminals in the drug
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rehab industry.
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00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:45,780
The big legacy from the Kenny Chapman
saga and catastrophe is that we got the
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Silver Homes Task Force. I mean, we got
state funding to go after and arrest
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00:41:50,300 --> 00:41:52,400
people that are committing these
treatment crimes.
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00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:57,100
I mean, there's been 50 arrests, 200
facilities have shut down.
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Nothing scares people more than the
threat of them being locked up.
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00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:05,680
And that's what happened to Kenny.
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00:42:06,460 --> 00:42:11,520
He goes from nobody to multimillionaire
in four years, and he's going to be
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spending pretty much the rest of his
life in federal prison.
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