{"id":261390,"date":"2025-10-30T19:40:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/261390\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T19:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:40:14","slug":"former-mercer-county-health-care-ceo-to-plead-in-2m-fraud-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/261390\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Mercer County health care CEO to plead in $2M fraud case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pierce, who also held a CEO position at PHN, was allegedly part of this scheme. Prosecutors charged that Pierce and two other former executives, Laeng and former facilities director Mark Marriott, worked together to operate a company called Topcoat Plus. The firm was described by prosecutors as a &#8220;purported&#8221; management company, which, along with other related businesses, allegedly submitted invoices to PHN for services that may have been fraudulent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pierce, who also held a CEO position at PHN, was allegedly part of this scheme. Prosecutors charged that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-261390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}