President Donald Trump already has launched fraud investigations into multiple schemes and defendants in Minnesota.
And Colorado, and Ohio and other states.
And now the Department of Justice has confirmed the next step in its fraud crackdown is bringing charges against 455 people who are accused of submitting claims for some $6.5 billion in fraud.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., FBI Director Kash Patel, and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz announced the operation that found suspects in 41 states.
Among the suspects are 90 licensed medical professionals.
Acting Attorney General @DAGToddBlanche announces the results of the 2026 National Health Care Fraud TAKEDOWN: 455 defendants charged in connection with $6.5+ BILLION in alleged fraud
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— U.S. Department of Justice (@TheJusticeDept) June 23, 2026
A report at the Washington Examiner said the schemes cover a wide range of economic channels, from Medicare and Medicaid to telemedicine, hospice and opioid businesses.
Authorities have seized $127 million in cash, a number of luxury cars and jewelry, the report said.
‘In just 14 days, 455 defendants have been charged across the country for schemes involving over $6.5 billion in fraud,” said Colin McDonald, of the DOJ’s Criminal Division. “There is no case too big, no scheme too complex, and no hiding place too remote for our fraud-fighting team.”
One indictment alleges Oren David Shachar, who owns four hospices and other healthcare businesses, paid kickbacks and bribes to enroll Medicare beneficiaries who were not terminally ill into hospice programs.
The result? Some $27.7 million in fraudulent claims, and nearly $27 million in payments.
The charges note that he’s even accused of using the identities of people who have died to enroll them in hospicare care, after their deaths.
“One of the ways that we’ve been able to detect that fraud is that in many of them, the patients never die, they live forever,” Kennedy said. “That’s not supposed to happen in hospices.”
More than 100 face charges in schemes involving more than $100 million in allegedly false Medicaid claims, and one Illinois provider was accused in a case involving $67 million in Medicaid payments for services prosecutors say were never provided.
The DOJ said, during the announcement, that it is using new data-sharing agreements with the Federal Trade Commission, Department of Homeland Security, and CMS.
The goal is access by investigators to consumer complaints, travel information and more.
Kennedy said under Joe Biden, federal agencies would pay claims, and then consider if they were fraudulent.
“That approach failed taxpayers. We are ending it.”
