A former Archbold Medical Center chief is to be sentenced in May on convictions in a late 2010 trial.

Ken Beverly is scheduled to be sentenced at 3 p.m. Thursday, May 12, in Albany U.S. District Court by Judge W. Louis Sands, who presided at Beverly’s 10-day trial.

Beverly, former Medical Center president and chief executive officer, was found guilty in early December in Valdosta U.S. District Court of:

• Conspiracy to falsify records

• Two counts falsification of records

• Two counts witness-tampering

• Misleading statements

Beverly, who is in his mid-60s, and William Sellers, former Medical Center chief financial officer, were indicted on charges of devising fraudulent documents to receive millions of dollars in Medicaid funding to which Archbold was not entitled.

Documents submitted to the federal were forged to show Archbold was a public entity, when it had always been a private, not-for-profit facility.

Archbold refunded the ill-gotten money to Medicaid after the Beverly verdict.

Sellers, also in his 60s, was sentenced in Albany U.S. District Court Thursday to two years probation and a $5,000 fine. He had entered a guilty plea to three counts of falsifying documents.

Sellers cooperated with the U.S. attorney’s office and the FBI during preparation of the case against Beverly, including turning over taped conversations he had with Beverly about the documents and possible repercussions. The recordings were played during the Beverly trial.

Jim Crane, prosecutor and assistant U.S. attorney, said Thursday that Seller’s cooperation with the government was the most extensive he and the FBI agent in the case had experienced in their 20-year careers.

Senior reporter Patti Dozier can be reached at (229) 226-2400, ext. 1820.