NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) - Two former employees of a Kinston substance abuse treatment company have pleaded guilty in a scheme to pay Medicaid kickbacks to patients.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says Keke Johnson, Life Touch LLC’s compliance director, and Francine Sims Super, an office manager for the company, admitted to being part of the scheme that also involved tax violations.

Life Touch is a Kinston-based company. In June, the Department of Justice named that company and 1st Choice Healthcare Services in a $14.6 billion national fraud takedown.

Super’s daughter, Kimberly Sims, owns 1st Choice, a lab company hired to do drug testing services for Life Touch, according to the DOJ.

Along with others, the U.S. Attorney’s Office says court documents show that Johnson and Super used Medicai

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