The Acting chairman of the People’s Liberation Party (PLC), Tapple E. Doe has confirmed the premature loss of life of their political chief, Dr. Daniel E. Cassell.
Mr. Doe confirming the loss of life information mentioned Dr. Cassell died of acardiac arrest or ‘heart attack’, early Christmas morning at his Philadelphia, residence, the place he had stayed battling authorized fees leveled towards him.
In September 2022, the PLP political chief, Dr. Cassell, claimed innocence in insurance coverage fraud fees levied towards him by the State of New Jersey.
Cassell, after turning into a family identify politically in Liberia as a consequence of humanitarian gesture, had been indicted by the Office of the Attorney General of New Jersey with first-degree cash laundering, second-degree theft by deception, and a number of counts of conspiracy, insurance coverage fraud, and different fees outlined beneath.
Acting New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor (OIFP), additionally accused Cassell and his spouse, Bindu Cassell, of utilizing their psychological well being clinics to cover unreported earnings, and did not report “more than US$11 million in additional New Jersey-earned income on NJ non-resident income tax returns” from 2016-2018.
However, for Cassell’s social gathering, they imagine that their political chief was being wrongfully accused, and would have been exonerated from all felony fees levied towards him by New Jersey.
“The PLP want to state emphatically that the accusations levied towards its Vision/Standard Bearer stay ‘doctored allegations’ that may solely be confirmed or denied via the presentation of arduous info or substantive proof throughout courtroom listening to or procedures and never by rumour.
“Indictment is not a guilty verdict but a process of preceding to trial and as such, its Standard Bearer remains innocent until proven guilty in a court of competent jurisdiction in the United States,” the social gathering’s National Chairman Tapple Doe, mentioned in a press release.
According to Doe, the social gathering remained hopeful that Cassell would return to Liberia in time for the 2023 Presidential and Legislative Elections to proceed his “crusade to liberate Liberia and its citizens from bad governance, segregation, deprivation, corruption, and other vices and societal ills that have kept them backward for several decades.”
Doe had puzzled why his political chief’s case, which is being carried out outdoors of Liberia, had gained a lot nationwide consideration and was getting used as a conduit to get on the social gathering and its chief “who has never stolen our country’s wealth and resources, neither has he been involved in our past atrocious civil war or committed any crime in Liberia.”
“We remain focused, determined and dedicated to building cells by consistently engaging our fellow citizens throughout the length and breadth of our country, and intervening to resolve the mountainous aged-old problems that they are faced with.”
“To this end, the PLP remains the only beacon of hope to liberate Liberia and its citizens and therefore, all patriotic and well-meaning Liberians should continue to put the interest of our country first by denouncing propaganda intended to injure the reputation of others, who have been in the vanguard of finding solutions to the barrage of problems the nation and citizens are currently encountering, and continues to worsen day by day.”
Cassell’s alleged crime, based on Platkin, happened between January 2015 and October 2021, and that the New Jersey Office of the Insurance Fraud Protector started investigating him and his firm, Kwenyan Professional Health Services, LLC and Kwenyan and Associates, which operated clinics throughout New Jersey in 2019.
The corporations operated till October 2021. Officials mentioned Cassell, his spouse, and a few workers used the Kwenyan identify to cover earnings on tax returns — utilizing the clinics to hide the couple’s earnings in a US$1 million tax evasion scheme — and defraud Medicaid with a phony billing scheme. They additionally defrauded Progressive Insurance Company, officers mentioned.
Two of Cassell’s workers submitted hundreds of false claims to Medicaid for psychological well being companies that had been by no means carried out, or had been billed incorrectly, New Jersey officers famous.
They are charged, together with Cassell, with second-degree conspiracy to commit well being care claims fraud, second-degree well being care claims fraud, third-degree conspiracy to commit Medicaid Fraud, and third-degree Medicaid Fraud.
Meanwhile, Doe has claimed that native media protection of the Cassell case is a smear marketing campaign that had been initiated by failed and grasping politicians who need to see Liberians die in perpetual financial hardship and poverty.
He added, “Amid the current administration plundering our country’s resources on their respective family members who are flagrantly flaunting their wealth in the eyes of the impoverished masses.”
Doe famous that the PLP isn’t moved or deterred by the rising wave of “political propaganda being intentionally targeted at Cassell” and the social gathering forward of the 2023 normal and presidential elections.
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