Marketing Company Owner Pleads Guilty

Jonathan Simeon Gholston pleaded guilty to conspiring to receive kickbacks in return for the referral of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries for the provision of HIV prophylactic medications. His marketing company’s representatives set up tents and tables in low-income areas and usually near storefronts. They offered to provide free, government-sponsored cellphones to anyone who stopped and agreed to provide their personal information to obtain the phones. The people were agreeing only to receive a free cellphone and not requesting or agreeing to receive HIV medications. Read a story from Action News Jax and a Department of Justice press release.

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