Trump Administration Announces 3 Wins and $500M Recovered in ‘War on Fraud’

The Justice Department this week wrapped up health care fraud investigations in California, Florida, and Nevada, saying it recovered 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.”

Here are three adjudicated cases this week that ended in either a settlement, sentencing, or guilty pleas.

1. Florida Obamacare Payments

The DOJ obtained guilty pleas and a civil settlement from AP of South Florida LLC., a one-time subsidiary of AssuredPartners Inc., a national insurance firm.

AP of South Florida pleaded guilty to charges over an enrollment scheme for the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, in which it obtained $141.5 million in unwarranted subsidies, according to the Justice Department.

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.

The department further alleged that AP of South Florida employees submitted false information to Florida’s Medicaid program to generate letters denying Medicaid coverage.

The Florida firm agreed to pay a $27.6 million fine, according to the Justice Department.

AP of South Florida’s former parent company, AssuredPartners Inc., a national partnership of insurance brokers, agreed to pay $107 million in a separate civil penalty to resolve fraud allegations. The national company was not charged in the criminal case, the Justice Department said.

The current owner of AssuredPartners Inc. is Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., which issued a statement noting they did not own the company at the time the federal probe commenced and that they never owned the Florida subsidiary.

“Today, the U.S. DOJ announced a settlement with APSF and AssuredPartners. The settlement is in relation to actions that occurred at an agency that was owned by APSF from February 2021 through September 2022,” the Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. statement said. “This period predates Gallagher’s acquisition of AssuredPartners in August 2025.“

“Importantly, Gallagher became aware of the government’s investigation during its pre-acquisition diligence of AssuredPartners. APSF was not included in Gallagher’s acquisition of AssuredPartners, and Gallagher has never owned APSF,” the statement continued.

”The investigation and potential settlement were considered under the purchase agreement, the settlement amount was fully reserved, and settlement does not impact the purchase price Gallagher paid for AssuredPartners.”

The Daily Signal reached the phone and email contacts listed for AP of South Florida, but no one responded by publication time.

2. California Pharmacy Fraud

In the California case, three people have pleaded guilty in a Medicaid scheme involving the submission of $269.1 million in fraudulent claims.

Paul Randall, 66, of Orange, pleaded guilty this week for his role in the plot after two others—pharmacy owner Kyrollos Mekail, 37, of Moreno Valley, and nurse practitioner Patricia Anderson, 58, of West Hills—pleaded guilty in 2024 and 2025.

The DOJ charged them with crimes spanning from May 2022 to April 2023, under a business called Monte Vista Pharmacy.

Randall’s sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 3, News Channel 3 KESQ reported.

A lawyer for Randall was not listed in the Justice Department press release or news accounts of the case. The publicly listed phone number listed for a Paul Randall in Orange, California, was disconnected.

The Justice Department said the three billed Medicaid tens of millions of dollars per month for purportedly providing high-priced medications that actually contained generic ingredients. The department said Randall paid illegal kickbacks to patient marketers and to Anderson to sign prefilled prescriptions.

Under his plea agreement, Randall agreed to forfeit property obtained from the fraud, including bank account balances of more than $17 million, three vehicles, seven properties, and sports memorabilia. The government seized about $126.5 million in assets that the trio accumulated from the scheme.

3. Nevada and COVID-19 Claims

Candies Goode-McCoy, formerly of Las Vegas, was sentenced this week to 54 months in prison and three years of supervised release on fraud charges.

She pleaded guilty in February 2025 to conspiracy to defraud the government by claiming $98 million in COVID-19-related tax credits, according to the Justice Department.

Goode-McCoy was also ordered to pay the Internal Revenue Service $26 million in restitution, according to the Justice Department.

Prosecutors said that from June 2022 to September 2023, she filed more than 1,200 tax returns for her businesses and those of others, claiming tax credits and seeking refunds totaling more than $98 million.

The IRS paid out about $33 million as a result of the scheme.

There was not a publicly-listed phone number for Goode-McCoy.

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