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.
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.
Federal prosecutors say a healthcare worker in Miami photographed patient records with his cellphone and sold them to a buyer who resold the lists for as much as $7,000 each. The numbers belonged to more than 6,000 Medicare beneficiaries who never knew their files were leaving the room.
A dual citizen was stopped at JFK in September 2024 with a one-way ticket toward Azerbaijan. The bag he was carrying mattered less than the bank accounts he left behind, and the ninety-year-old whose Medicare number was written on a claim form she never saw.