When the Feds finally raided Cedric Dean’s mansion, out front were the words “Thug Mansion” and “Black Lives Matter”.
Inside the homes of the expert ‘Thugologist’ in North Carolina were the fruits of his hard work from allegedly defrauding Medicaid of millions and some ruder types speculate that the author of ‘How To Stop Your Children From Going To Prison’ may soon need a new chapter.
But the BLM adjacent activist has had a lot of chapters in his life that began when he was sent to prison for armed robbery at 16, then locked away for 105 years on charges of operating a crack ring until he was freed by pro-crime sentencing reforms that went easy on crack dealers.
But even while in prison, Dean had invented first ‘Deanism’, which promised to cure criminals, and ‘Thugology’, which claimed that being a thug was a medical condition. Relaying messages to be posted on Facebook from prison, Dean claimed that “we have available thugologists from every region of the country” who were “reformed federal prisoners who sincerely want to make amends” and are ready to “facilitate requests from parents and caregivers” of the thugs.
The NAACP even appointed him as the Executive Director of NAACP Prison Branch 5135.
“Sane Thug Therapy” was hailed as the solution for teaching thugs to “control their misguided thoughts” even while Dean denounced police for shooting criminals, complaining, “BLACK LIVES DON’T MATTER” to them. He published a book titled ‘Thugology’ and was hailed as an un-thuggish model prisoner and utterly reformed from his former thugological practices.
Reformed enough to jettison his ‘life without the possibility of parole’ sentence so that he could “devote himself full-time helping thugs and goons understand the forces behind their thuggery.”
Dean was out in 2018. Next year, Rep. Alma Adams invited him as her guest to President Trump’s State of the Union address.to celebrate the ‘First Step Act’ and its release of criminals. Dean was working to help criminals reform and he told a reporter that “people can change.”
Soon he was billing himself as a “nationally recognized behavioral health expert”, “agitator”, a “violence interrupter and peacekeeper”, a minister, a “social justice expert”, an “entrepreneur”, a “community leader”, a “reentry expert”, a “motivational speaker”, an “educator” and virtually anything you can think of including an advocate for the homeless.
Also he appeared at anti-police protest rallies, recorded a rap video in a “Black Lives Matter” t-shirt with a black power fist, complained about “racial micro aggressions” and ran for city council while billing himself as a “Dedicated Democrat”.
But, like so many dedicated Dems, it’s “helping people” that got Cedric Dean in trouble.
Among the many organizations Dean created was the HELP Program: a supposed homeless shelter. He’s now accused of soliciting Medicaid ID numbers from people at homeless shelters and camps and using those to run up millions in charges for services that were never provided.
A few weeks after HELP took over a shelter, a woman and her 1-year-old were found dead. Dean claimed however that they had already been dead when he got there. Residents complained that Dean was pressuring them to leave and one confrontation ended in his arrest. Another hotel was shut down by a fire marshall after an inspection found “open electrical boxes and wire splices”, no smoke alarms or fire extinguishers and a “burn barrel” in the backyard.
Cedric Dean Holdings billed $14.5 million in services which, according to the government’s allegations, were “exorbitant amounts for services that the conspirators could not, within the bounds of space and time, provide; and conducted billing that was 894% more than the provider that submitted the second highest number of similar claims.” But the government may not understand that “space and time” are nothing to an expertly trained ‘Thugologist’.
The government alleges that the thugologist “billed Medicaid for approximately $1 million of purportedly rendered services per month, but… did not offer any actual services.”
Assuming you don’t count expert thugology as a service.
54 services were reportedly provided to someone who was deceased which is quite an accomplishment even for the most experienced thugologist who has a PhD in gooning.
The money however allegedly went to a good cause, “vehicles, jewelry and properties”, which any self-respecting thugologist needs if he’s going to convince thugs that there’s a better way to live the thug life than shooting each other over some rock when they can just become social justice activists, start nonprofits and teach each other to stay out of prison by turning to fraud.
While billing taxpayers for millions.
The final verdict may still be out on ‘thugology’ or so much else. Their status, like that of Dean’s Yukons and his Silverado seized by the feds, may be up in the air, but the real credit for all this goes to ‘diversity champion’ Claire Rauscher. The former federal public defender represented Dean when he was sentenced to life in prison and continued to work on his case, cutting his sentence down to 30 years, then to 24 years, and then he was out and going all sorts of places.
“He’s doing remarkable things—I always knew he would,” Rauscher, who has been awarded the title of Diversity Champion, gushed. “I’m really proud of Cedric.”
Who wouldn’t be?
The good news for Dean and Rauscher is that the diversity champion is now practicing in the area of ‘white collar crime’ and Medicaid is not a ‘thug’ crime, but a white collar crime.
Why break up the beautiful partnership between a thugologist and a diversity champion?
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.
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