
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman announced April 3 that a Lexington man who owned an eye care center in Floyd and Johnson counties has been convicted by a Franklin County jury on charges of fraud and theft. the conviction of Marcus S. Minix Sr., 73, came about as a result of an investigation by the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud and Control Unit. Minix, and was convicted of class D felony theft and a class D felony charge of devising or engaging in a scheme to defraud the Kentucky Medical Assistance Program. Over a dozen victimized patients could not receive proper eye care because of his criminal activity, according to the statement. Several of his victims were children, including one of whom was legally blind in one eye and had delays getting glasses.