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Hamail Waddell, whose arrest by a Binghamton police officer was deemed an excessive use of force by the New York attorney general’s office, is facing charges of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. The Binghamton city judge who heard testimony last week in the two-day bench trial is expected to deliver a verdict later this month.

The suit accuses Centers for Care, a company that runs nursing homes across the state, of financial fraud and neglect in four of its facilities. The company currently has a consulting contract with Broome County’s Willow Point nursing home.

The Southern Tier region will receive about $4.8 million from the settlement in 2022. The initial payout on Tuesday totaled about $759,000 for the region.

"When we have residents coming back from treatment and ending up in the same housing they left we’re not assisting them in staying in recovery," said Rebecca Kaufman, Director of the Broome County Department of Health.