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Friday, November 6, 2026

California Doctors ARRESTED As FBI RAIDS Mansion In $2B Medical Fraud Takedown


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Before sunrise, FBI agents raided homes and clinics across Southern California. By the end of the day, 15 people faced charges in schemes the Justice Department put at close to $2 billion in false claims.

A surgeon and a chiropractor charged with billing Medicare $135 million for artery operations that prosecutors say patients did not need, some done again and again How billing data flagged one surgeon as an extreme outlier for the procedure nationwide A $1.6 billion sober home scheme, the largest of its kind the Justice Department has ever prosecuted, built on recruiting people struggling with addiction from across the country “Trap houses,” therapy that was a 100-person Zoom call, and patients told they could lie on the beach while insurance was billed Hospice companies where most “dying” patients walked out alive

Presumption of innocence

All defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court. Only one, a facility manager, has pleaded guilty so far.

Sources

U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, U.S. Department of Justice, FBI, ABC7 Los Angeles, FOX 11 Los Angeles, CBS Los Angeles.

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