The Oregon Department of Justice announced Oct. 28 that Rever Grand Inc., Oregon’s largest provider of in-home care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, pleaded no contest in Josephine County Circuit Court to one count of making a false claim for a health care payment.

As the Oregon Journalism Project previously reported ( “Mr. Big,” Jan. 22 ), founders Raymond Parenteau and Jolene Sesso built the Grants Pass company from nothing into an agency that billed the state $170 million last year. The state’s investigation found that the company engaged in a variety of questionable practices to grow its business.

The Justice Department reached the plea agreement—which calls for four years of probation and an independent monitor paid for by the company—with new owners wh

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