The White House wants you to see exactly what government health care fraud looks like once it gets cashed out. Posted on 06/02/2026 9:57:26 AM PDT by Red Badger
The White House wants you to see exactly what government health care fraud looks like once it gets cashed out.
It looks like an eight-bedroom mansion, game-worn Kobe Bryant sneakers, original Mickey Mantle Yankees cards, and a garage full of luxury cars.
All of it, federal prosecutors say, traces back to false claims billed to Medi-Cal, California’s version of Medicaid.
On June 2, 2026, the official White House Rapid Response 47 account posted CBS News video of the seized items and tied the case directly to President Trump’s fraud crackdown.
An 8 bedroom mansion, game-worn Kobe Bryant sneakers, original Mickey Mantle Yankees cards — all purchased with your tax dollars.
"He was living like a king off of us."
The Trump Administration's war on fraud couldn't be more necessary. pic.twitter.com/bbJXsC6Xgd— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 2, 2026
The line that landed hardest came straight from the video: “He was living like a king off of us.”
That man is Paul Randall, 66, of Orange, California.
On April 7, 2026, the Justice Department announced that Randall pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud.
Randall admitted he caused at least $269,120,829 in false and fraudulent claims to Medi-Cal over an 11-month stretch from May 2022 to April 2023.
Of that, prosecutors say Medi-Cal actually paid out at least roughly $178.7 million.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced the case as part of President Trump’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud:
A California man pleaded guilty yesterday to submitting nearly $270 million in fraudulent claims over an 11-month span to California’s Medicaid program (Medi-Cal) for expensive prescription drugs that were medically unnecessary and, in many instances, not provided to the purported recipients.
The Department of Justice announced this case and two others in support of President Trump’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud at a press conference in Washington today.
“Thanks to the leadership of President Donald Trump, the Department, working closely with the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, is supercharging efforts to take down every fraudster and bring them to justice,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
“In one day, the Department prosecuted the theft of a half-billion in taxpayer dollars. All those ripping off the American people are on notice.”
“The defendant was a repeat fraudster who caused Medi-Cal, a program designed to help those in need, to be billed nearly $270 million for expensive and medically unnecessary medications,” said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
“He and his co-schemers stole over $178 million through false and fraudulent claims for these medications, lining their own pockets with public funds. The Criminal Division will aggressively prosecute those who defraud Medicaid and exploit taxpayer-funded benefit programs.”
“This defendant used a public health program as his personal piggy bank,” said First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli of the Central District of California.
“This guilty plea should send a message that this administration — consistent with the President’s war on fraud — will not turn a blind eye while criminals fleece taxpayers.”
The mechanics are almost insulting in their simplicity.
At the start of 2022, Medi-Cal temporarily suspended its requirement that providers get prior authorization for certain medications while it switched to a new payment system.
Randall and his co-schemers drove a truck through that opening.
Prosecutors say a nurse practitioner signed pre-filled prescriptions for 19 high-reimbursement generic drugs without ever meeting the patients or checking whether the medications were medically necessary.
The U.S. Department of Justice laid out how the scheme worked and what the government has clawed back:
According to court documents, Paul Randall, 66, of Orange, along with pharmacist and pharmacy owner Kyrollos Mekail, 37, of Moreno Valley, and nurse practitioner Patricia Anderson, 58, of West Hills, exploited Medi-Cal’s suspension of its requirement that health care providers obtain prior authorization before providing certain medications at the beginning of 2022.
Medi-Cal temporarily suspended the requirement as part of a transition to a new payment system.
Using a business called Monte Vista Pharmacy, which Mekail owned, Randall and his co-schemers billed Medi-Cal tens of millions of dollars per month for purportedly dispensing high-reimbursement drugs containing cheap, generic ingredients that were manufactured in unique dosages, combinations or package quantities and were not included in the applicable maximum price lists that cap Medi-Cal reimbursements.
In furtherance of the scheme, Randall paid illegal kickbacks to patient marketers in exchange for Medi-Cal beneficiary information and thereafter paid illegal kickbacks to Anderson to sign pre-filled prescriptions for 19 high-reimbursement, non-contracted, generic drugs.
Anderson never met the patients, reviewed their medical records or otherwise determined that the medications were medically necessary before signing the prescriptions.
The medications, which included pain creams and Folite tablets, a vitamin available over the counter, were billed for thousands of dollars each, including approximately $13,424 for one prescription of meloxicam 5 mg, a generic drug that typically costs between $5 and $25 for a 30-day supply in larger dosages.
Randall received a portion of Monte Vista’s reimbursements from Medi-Cal, at times equaling approximately 40% of Monte Vista’s profit from the false and fraudulent claims.
Randall admitted in his plea agreement that he caused at least $269,120,829 in false and fraudulent claims to Medi-Cal from May 2022 to April 2023, of which Medi-Cal paid at least approximately $178,746,556. Randall also admitted that he committed the offense while on release in another criminal case.
In his plea agreement, Randall agreed to forfeit property obtained from the fraud, including bank account balances exceeding $17 million, three vehicles, seven real properties, and sports memorabilia.
To date, the government has seized approximately $126.5 million in assets that Randall and his co-schemers accumulated from the scheme, including $111 million in bank funds and securities, nine luxury vehicles totaling approximately $1 million, nine luxury real properties totaling approximately $13.5 million, and more than $1 million worth of sports memorabilia.
Read that again.
A vitamin you can buy at the drugstore, plus a generic anti-inflammatory that runs a few bucks, billed back to taxpayers for thousands per prescription.
Randall pocketed as much as 40 percent of the pharmacy’s profit from the fake claims, according to the Justice Department.
He also admitted he pulled the scheme off while already on release in another criminal case.
He is not the only one facing the music.
Pharmacist Kyrollos Mekail and nurse practitioner Patricia Anderson both pleaded guilty in related proceedings and are awaiting sentencing.
Randall is scheduled to be sentenced on August 3 and faces a maximum of 30 years in prison.
This is what the war on fraud actually buys when it works.
It turns an abstract budget line into a seized mansion and a row of rare sports cards that the rest of us paid for.
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A California man pleaded guilty yesterday to submitting nearly $270 million in fraudulent claims over an 11-month span to California’s Medicaid program (Medi-Cal) for expensive prescription drugs that were medically unnecessary and, in many instances, not provided to the purported recipients.
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what kinda racket was this dude into before he came up with this scam?
was this his first attempted fraud?
“illegal kickbacks to patient marketers ... Anderson never met the patients”
There are several players in this game.
1) The Patients, the poor, the welfare recipients
2) The Providers, the doctors, nurses, Pharmacists, Psychiatrists, Durable Equipment vendors and others.
3) The Federal and state Agency staff of employees and consultants (I used to be one) who work with the data and make decisions.
4) The IT VENDORS who design, build, maintain and run the IT SOFTWARE that contains and processes the data.
The top 2 welfare IT Vendors are Deloitte and Gainwell. Then Acentra, Accenture, Optum, GDIT and others each have a small bite. Deloitte and Gainwell are in CA, most states, all the big states. They are paid both Federal and State $ separate from payments to Providers and Recipients. They are paid to “manage” the Providers and recipients.
Deloitte comes first in the process with IES Integrated Eligibility System and its EMPI Enterprise Master Person Index. Deloitte is probably the single biggest FRAUDSTER in welfare, far bigger than any Somali.
The primary Waste Fraud Abuse of Gainwell is in inefficiently processing the garbage data it receives from Deloitte.
Deloitte should be prosecuted for FRAUD. Deloitte enrolls the DEAD as eligible for benefits. Deloitte enrolls DUPLICATES. Sue Smith, Susan Smith, Susan Jones-Smith have the same DOB, SSN, address and are the same person. Deloitte gives her 3 ID, 3 benefit plans. This does not meet the definition of a Master Person Index that we are paying for and is hence FRAUD.
Deloitte garbage data makes much of the fraud by others possible.
Providers is a different story. GA and most all states licenses Medical Providers. (In GA the Dept of Community Health (DCH where I was a consultant) licenses and regulates Doctors, Dentists, Pharmacists, etc. The Secretary of State licenses and regulates Nurses, technicians and the lesser professions. In addition, GA EXPECTS all providers in GA and adjacent states (FL, AL, TN, NC, SC) to have a CONTRACT with DCH that specifies the terms of payment for services rendered. (Occasional Providers from distant states were not required to have a contract. It would be unreasonable to expect every Provider in Idaho to have a contract with GA.)
But GA acquired the habit of paying providers outside a contract agreement. Sometimes the Provider had a contract; but it was ignored and the Provider was paid. Sometimes the provider had no contract and was still paid.
This was a bureaucratic problem within the state government staff and not the fault of an IT vendor.
Separately Deloitte is the the #1 abuse of H1b. Acentra also seems to have many H1b. Some H1b have no idea of US or state laws and customs needed to design and develop this software. Some H1b staff do not communicate well in English. Some H1b IT staff are not competent in IT. The H1b issue is probably separate from the other IT vendor issues.
As per court records, Paul Randall defrauded taxpayers while on release in a criminal case. He colluded w/ pharmacist Kyrollos Mekail, and nurse practitioner Patricia Anderson, to defraud:
<><>the scammers used Monte Vista Pharmacy, which Mekail owned,
<><>and billed Medi-Cal tens of millions of dollars per month
<><>they faked dispensing high-reimbursement drugs containing cheap, generic ing.
<><>Randall paid illegal kickbacks to patient marketers for Medi-Cal beneficiary info
<><>then paid out illegal kickbacks
<><>Anderson signed pre-filled prescriptions for high-reimbursement generic drugs.
<><>pharmacist Anderson never met the patients,
<><>never reviewed their medical records
<><>never determined medications were medically necessary.
<><>medications were billed for thousands of dollars each,
<><>pocketing $13,424 for one prescription of meloxicam 5 mg,
<><>the generic drug costs between $5-$25 for a 30-day supply
<><>Randall received a portion of Monte Vista’s reimbursements from Medi-Cal,
<><>at times this equaled some 40% of Monte Vista’s profit from fraudulent claims.
Randall in his plea agreement said he caused at least $269,120,829 in false and fraudulent claims to Medi-Cal from May 2022 to April 2023, of which Medi-Cal paid out at least approximately $178,746,556. Randall agreed to forfeit $126.5 million in assets from the scheme, including:
<><>$111 million in bank funds and securities,
<><>nine luxury vehicles totaling approximately $1 million,
<><>nine luxury real properties totaling some $13.5 million,
<><>and more than $1 million worth of sports memorabilia.
One of many. They are Legion.
He pleaded guilty to ONE count?
Didn’t Trump get charged with 34 counts for the same single Horny Daniels payoff?
Randall should get one count for every dollar he stole.
Finding Fraud could be a good job for AI
Sorry folks, but with our printed, fiat, centrally-issued federal reserve monetary system, this will only grow and get worse.
There are plenty of people “in the system” who are aware of the fraud in both Red and Blue states. To speak out and make waves is often not a wise career move. Management wants things to run smooth and pretend there are no problems.
(Note that I spoke out publicly in 2014-2019 about voter problems in GA after I left the voter registration project. I speak out publicly about welfare fraud after I left GA DCH. When inside an agency I spoke out within that agency, but not publicly.)
Another day, another $100 million of taxpayer money gone.
Paul Randall........mega-Medicare fraudster.
$270 million to one person in less than a year and no bells or whistles went off at the State level???
Isn’t this the ‘no kings’ the commies are screaming about?
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