South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced that his office’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (SCMFCU) has arrested Jason Dale Ray, 39 years old, of Cassatt, SC for allegedly exploiting a resident in an assisted living facility. Ray is charged with one count of Exploitation of a Vulnerable Adult, one count of Financial Identity Fraud, one count of Forgery, value less than $10,000, one count of Obtaining Property or Signature under False Pretenses, value more than $2,000 but less than $10,000, and one count of Forgery, no dollar amount. Ray was booked into the Kershaw County Detention Center on June 12, 2023. An SCMFCU investigation revealed that between May 2022 and October 2022 Jason Ray unlawfully and without consent accessed the victim’s banking account and converted $6,390 of the victim’s funds to his own use. Specifically, investigators allege that Ray, while disguised in a blond wig, sunglasses, and surgical mask to obscure his face, did knowingly and willfully forge the victim’s signature on multiple withdrawal slips while submitting them at a drive-up teller at a Lugoff bank. It is further alleged that in November of 2022, Ray forged power-of-attorney documents on the victim and submitted them to Mid-Carolina Credit Union to further the exploitation scheme. The victim, a vulnerable adult under South Carolina law, resided at an assisted living facility in Camden during the time of the alleged misconduct.
