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Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Southern District of Georgia

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, October 21, 2016

VA Employee Sentenced to Federal Prison for Falsifying the Medical Records of Hundreds of Veterans

AUGUSTA, GA -- Cathedral Henderson, 51, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Court Judge J. Randal Hall, in Augusta, Georgia, to 27 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for falsifying the medical records of hundreds of veterans. After a week-long trial earlier this year, a jury convicted Henderson on all counts.

Evidence presented at trial and during sentencing revealed that Henderson, a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employee and the former Chief of Non-VA Care Coordination at the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center in Augusta, falsified the medical records of over 2,700 VA patients. Henderson intentionally terminated unresolved consults – medical appointments that had not been scheduled or completed – as “patient refused services or services provided.” Further, when confronted with the evidence of his crimes, Henderson lied to investigating agents about his actions.
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