How Bob Dean raided nursing home bank accounts while residents suffered after Hurricane Ida

For Bob Dean, 2021 was the year to cash in. He’d fueled a lavish lifestyle for years through some of the most poorly rated nursing homes in Louisiana, and now Dean was in line to seal a $70 million sale of his remaining seven homes. But the sale – like some of Dean’s patients – became a casualty of Hurricane Ida. After watching 843 of his residents suffer following their evacuation to an ill-equipped warehouse without enough toilets, showers or air conditioning, state health officials shut it down and began...