The Justice Department wrapped up health care fraud investigations in California, Florida, and Nevada, recovering about $500 million. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, chaired by Vice President JD Vance, and the Justice Department are together “supercharging efforts to take down every fraudster and bring them to justice.”
In the Florida case, AP of South Florida LLC, a one-time subsidiary of AssuredPartners Inc., pleaded guilty to charges over an Affordable Care Act enrollment scheme in which it obtained $141.5 million in unwarranted subsidies. The DOJ alleged that the Florida company targeted low-income individuals—including people experiencing homelessness, the unemployed, and those with mental health and substance abuse problems—with cash or gift cards to enroll in Affordable Care Act plans. This caused enrollees to lose Medicaid coverage and face increased costs for treatment. AP of South Florida agreed to pay a $27.6 million fine. AssuredPartners Inc. agreed to pay $107 million in a separate civil penalty to resolve fraud allegations.
In California, three people pleaded guilty in a Medicaid scheme involving the submission of $269.1 million in fraudulent claims spanning from May 2022 to April 2023 under a business called Monte Vista Pharmacy. Pharmacy owner Kyrollos Mekail pleaded guilty in 2024, nurse practitioner Patricia Anderson in 2025, and Paul Randall pleaded guilty this week. The DOJ charged them with billing Medicaid tens of millions of dollars per month for purportedly high-priced medications that actually contained generic ingredients. The government seized about $126.5 million in assets accumulated from the scheme.
In Nevada, Candies Goode-McCoy was sentenced to 54 months in prison and three years of supervised release on fraud charges related to COVID-19 tax credits. She pleaded guilty in February 2025 to conspiracy to defraud the government by claiming $98 million in COVID-19-related tax credits. From June 2022 to September 2023, she filed more than 1,200 tax returns claiming credits and seeking refunds totaling $98 million. The IRS paid out about $33 million as a result of the scheme. She was ordered to pay $26 million in restitution to the IRS.
This article is an AI-assisted summary. All facts and figures are drawn from the original report: https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/04/08/trump-administration-announces-3-wins-and-500m-recovered-in-war-on-fraud/