LEETONIA, Ohio - In a federal court filing on Wednesday, federal prosecutors are asking a judge to force Ryan Sheridan, downtown developer and owner of Braking Point Recovery to be forced to turn over his nearly $1 million Leetonia home. 

The filing also lays out the specifics of several allegations of Medicaid fraud against Sheridan and Braking Point. 

The complaint argues that a home on Spring Hill Drive owned by one of Sheridan's companies, 41079 Spring Hill Drive LLC, was paid for through the funneling of Medicaid payments into a privately held bank account of Sheridan's. 

According to the complaint, Sheridan purchased the Leetonia property in September 2016 for more than $792,000. Federal prosecutors say the money came from a personal bank account on which Sheridan was the only signer. 

The home is now valued at more than $950,000

Prosecutors allege that more than $2 million was transferred into Sheridan's account from January 2016 through May 2017 from an account that was in the name of Braking Point Recovery LLC. and primarily funded via payments from the Ohio Department of Medicaid. 

In addition to the home, the complaint lays out several payments allegedly made from Sheridan's personal account, including more than $158,000 for a replica Batmobile, $51,000 for a replica 1981 DeLorean Gullwing (as featured in the movie Back to the Future), and $140,000 for a reproduction of the "Ghostbusters vehicle". 

Agents searching Sheridan's Leetonia home in October 2017 say they found more than $390,000 stacked in piles in a basement safe.

They also confiscated more than $2 million dollars from one of Sheridan's bank accounts on the same day.

On January 10th agents again searched Sheridan's Leetonia home as well as one in Girard home and the Austintown home of Sheridan's ex-wife.

The Hollywood replica cars were towed away from the Girard and Leetonia homes. A Cadillac and the pickup truck were taken from the Leetonia location.

An earlier civil complaint filed earlier against Sheridan and his companies allege that $2,961,496 and money used to buy replicas of the Ghostbuster hearse, the Batmobile, the Delorean, as well as a Cadillac Escalade and a Chevy Silverado were obtained from proceeds of alleged health care fraud and money laundering.

A federal judge last week granted a stay of that forfeiture, pending the results of a criminal investigation. 

After the latest filing, 21 News reached out to the Department of Justice who said that the request that Sheridan forfeit his home is part of the same continuing investigation. 

Despite the references in federal court to a criminal investigation, no one has been charged in the case. 

However, the civil complaint filed Wednesday repeats claims that have been laid out that nurses and employees of Braking Point were ordered to never log an encounter with a patient as less than five minutes for billing purposes. 

At one point an employee alleges that they said it did not take five minutes to administer medication, at which point nurses were mandated to take patients vitals at every interaction as well. 

In addition, the complaint says employees said that they were told to log minutes spent with each patient on activities like smoke breaks, watching T.V together, and even bed checks done while the patients were sleeping since it was nearly impossible to meet a 120 minute limit per day with each patient that could be charged to Medicaid.

Another employee told investigators that there was no training for employees and no drug screening or criminal background checks were required.

Investigators interviewed another employee who said that Sheridan expected to make $100,000 a week and would "scream" at his ex-wife if Braking Point only made $50,000.

One employee who questioned how narcotics were being dispensed told investigators that Sheridan said they shouldn't worry about it.

The complaint says Braking Point's health insurance billing was done by Sheridan's ex-wife, who is only identified as “JMS” in the document.

During a June 14, 2017 site survey in Austintown, inspectors from the Ohio Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services say they found many case management notes did not have a credential supervisor signing off on the notes.

The complaint says some of the case management were for "questionable" treatment, including working out at a gym and a counselor buying a patient's cigarettes.

"The assessments of patients were not completed properly and goal were very generic," according to the complaint.

In addition,"Crisis intervention notes written into the charts were for issues that do not qualify as a crisis," the complaint continued.

One case review found that Braking Point received nearly $35,000 for one patient's treatment, 28 days of which included treatment in beds that weren't licensed.

In addition, the complaint claims that Sheridan was operating illegally by having 34 unlicensed inpatient beds- some of which were used for a 28-day "supplemental" recovery program. 

Federal prosecutors allege that the investigation began when Braking Point requested reimbursement for more than $48.5 million over the course of two and a half years. The Ohio Department of Medicaid paid approximately $31 million. 

The case is being investigated by the FBI, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of the Inspector General, the IRS,  the DEA, and the Ohio AG's Medicaid Fraud Unit.