LEXINGTON, Ky. — Delores Jordan, the owner of a Lexington sober-living company, has agreed to plead guilty to a federal kickback conspiracy, admitting she took payments in exchange for steering urine drug tests to outside labs that billed Medicare and Kentucky Medicaid more than $2.5 million, according to a signed plea agreement filed this week in U.S. District Court. In return, prosecutors will move to dismiss 11 remaining counts of health-care fraud at sentencing, the document states.
Jordan, who founded Serenity Keepers on Aug. 20, 2019, in Fayette County, acknowledged that beginning in fall 2019 she solicited kickbacks—paid by check, cash and electronic transfers—for referring her clients’ urine drug testing to three laboratories. By October 2021, those payments increased to $5,000 apiece and were routed as “consulting” checks or ACH transfers to a company tied to co-defendant Jerome Davis, X-Tremly for Christ LLC, the plea says.
In all, Medicare and Kentucky’s Department for Medicaid Services paid approximately $234,832 to one lab, $1,584,321 to a second, and $750,792 to a third for tests referred from Serenity Keepers during the scheme, the filing states. One example cited in the agreement: on Nov. 30, 2021, a $5,000 check was issued to Davis’s company as part of the kickback arrangement.
Under the deal, Jordan will plead guilty to Count 12 (conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute), a felony punishable by up to five years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and up to three years of supervised release. She also agrees to pay restitution of at least $2,444,528.30 to Kentucky Medicaid and $125,418.36 to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and to be jointly and severally liable with any co-defendants found responsible for those losses.
Judge Karen K. Caldwell set Jordan’s rearraignment for Nov. 10, 2025, and canceled her December trial date as to Jordan; co-defendants Deshawn “Dashawn” Dawkins, Ernest Williams and Jerome Davis remain charged and are presumed innocent. (Court docket entries.)
What’s next: After Jordan’s guilty plea is taken in open court, a probation officer will prepare a pre-sentence report. The judge will then determine restitution and any prison term within the statutory maximums, taking the plea agreement and the advisory guidelines into account.
