Federal prosecutors say Ibrahim Khaldoon Hilmi ran a network of shell companies that billed Medicare for medical equipment never ordered and patients who never existed. He fled to Türkiye in May 2025. On June 19, 2026, two FBI agents walked him onto a plane.
Federal prosecutors say a Boca Raton clinic ran student-athlete heart screenings as an $89 million billing operation. The indictment alleges the medical director rubber-stamped results he never read. One of those results belonged to a teenager who later collapsed.
Patrick Bucknum ran a network that paid the bills for eleven Washington clinics. For six years, the federal complaint says, he ran the clinics' money through his own brokerage account instead.
Federal prosecutors say a father and son in Lawton, Oklahoma billed the military's health program for more than 650,000 in-person breathing-machine visits that never happened. The indictment came down last week. The trucks and the cash were already gone.
Jean Wilson, 54, built a career teaching healthcare compliance and then ran a telehealth operation that the Justice Department says billed Medicare for $136 million in braces and pills no one needed. On Tuesday she got ten years.
James Shuford Price III pleaded guilty in federal court on June 24 to running a Los Angeles lab that billed taxpayer-funded health programs for tens of millions in respiratory tests, many authorized by physicians who had never heard of the patients. The doctors did not know their names were on the paperwork. Neither did most of the patients.