The Vermont Attorney General’s Office announced that Dexter Agasi, 55, of Rutland, Vermont, was arraigned on two misdemeanor counts of Abuse of a Vulnerable Adult. The charges stem from an investigation conducted by the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud and Residential Abuse Unit (MFRAU), with assistance from the Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living’s Division of Licensing and Protection (DLP). According to the affidavit of probable cause, an incident of abuse occurred in April while Mr. Agasi was working as the house manager at Our House Too, a residential care facility in Rutland, Vermont. The State alleges Mr. Agasi threatened an elderly resident who suffered from advanced dementia, gripped the resident by the neck, confined the resident, and refused the resident assistance despite the resident’s pleas for help. Mr. Agasi pleaded not guilty to all counts at his arraignment in Vermont Superior Court, Rutland Unit, Criminal Division.