"Zakia Khan on an undercover recording paying illegal kickbacks inside her office at Happy Family."
Posted on 09/12/2026 2:10:49 PM PDT by DFG
BROOKLYN, NY – Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Zakia Khan was sentenced by United States District Judge Natasha C. Merle to 76 months in prison in connection with her leadership role in carrying out a $64 million Medicaid fraud and illegal kickback scheme at her two social adult daycare centers and a home health care company. In August 2025, Khan pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States and pay health care kickbacks. As part of her sentence, Khan was also ordered to pay over $56 million in restitution and to forfeit $5 million in fraud proceeds, including two properties, cash, and gold jewelry seized during a search of her home, as pictured below.
Joseph Nocella, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York; Colin M. McDonald, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division; Pete Gizas, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Homeland Security Investigations, New York (HSI New York); Miranda L. Bennett, Acting Deputy Inspector General for Investigations, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG); and Jessica S. Tisch, Commissioner, New York City Police Department (NYPD) announced the sentence.
“Today’s sentencing sends a strong message of deterrence in our District,” stated United States Attorney Nocella. “Our Office and the Justice Department are focused on protecting American taxpayers from fraudsters and as such, we will vigorously prosecute corrupt health care owners and operators in our district.”
“Khan acted with staggering greed, leading a scheme to defraud Medicaid of millions of dollars intended for people in need. She and her co-conspirators set up social adult daycares but, instead of providing care and services to our most vulnerable neighbors, they enriched themselves with cash, gold, and property,” said HSI Acting Special Agent in Charge Gizas. “Today’s sentence sends a message: we will be relentless in our pursuit of justice against fraudsters. HSI is working side by side with our law enforcement partners to uncover and dismantle complex fraud networks like this one.”
“Social adult day care and home health services are designed to support seniors, not line the pockets of fraudsters,” said HHS-OIG Acting Deputy Inspector General Bennett. “Today’s sentence sends an important message that anyone who illicitly exploits the Medicaid program will be held accountable to the full extent of the law.”
“Zakia Khan stole $64 million from Medicaid through bribes and kickbacks—money meant to support the most vulnerable,” said NYPD Commissioner Tisch. “This was not only deeply illegal but also immoral, and the NYPD will continue to investigate anyone who exploits government programs for personal gain. I thank our NYPD investigators and all our partners in law enforcement for their work in stopping this criminal and bringing this case to a close.”
According to court documents, Khan owned two social adult daycare centers—Happy Family Social Adult Day Care Center Inc. (Happy Family) and Family Social Adult Day Care Center Inc. (Family Social) in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn. She also owned a home health care fiscal intermediary called Responsible Care Staffing Inc. and an entity she used to receive and disguise fraud proceeds called Tanwee Services Inc.
From approximately October 2017 through July 2024, in exchange for kickbacks and bribes, a web of marketers referred Medicaid recipients to Khan’s social adult daycare centers. As depicted in the pictures below, Khan and the marketers paid kickbacks and bribes to the Medicaid recipients to induce them to sign up for services that Khan then billed to Medicaid. These services were never actually provided as represented to Medicaid.
Between 2017 and 2024, Happy Family and Family Social fraudulently billed Medicaid approximately $64 million. Medicaid paid approximately $56 million based on these false and fraudulent claims. Khan and her co-conspirators used multiple business entities to launder the fraud proceeds and generate the cash used to pay kickbacks and bribes to the marketers and the Medicaid recipients.
HHS-OIG, HSI New York, and NYPD investigated the case.
Deputy Chief Patrick J. Campbell and Trial Attorney Leonid Sandlar of the National Fraud Enforcement Division’s Health Care Fraud Section are prosecuting the case with the assistance of Assistant U.S. Attorney Claire Kedeshian for the Eastern District of New York, who is handling forfeiture matters.
On April 7, the Department of Justice announced the creation of the National Fraud Enforcement Division (Fraud Division). The Fraud Division is laser-focused on investigating and prosecuting those who commit fraud against the American people. The Department’s work to combat fraud supports President Trump’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, a whole-of-government effort chaired by Vice President J.D. Vance to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse within Federal benefit programs.
The Defendant:
ZAKIA KHAN Age: 55 Brooklyn, New York
E.D.N.Y. Docket No.: 24-CR-409 (NCM)
Contact John Marzulli Denise Taylor United States Attorney’s Office (718) 254-6323
Updated September 10, 2026
"Zakia Khan on an undercover recording paying illegal kickbacks inside her office at Happy Family."
Why am I paying my taxes?
Should be 76 DECADES!
“Months” — BAH! What a crock!
Why do we import these aliens into our country and culture? Pretty much anyone from outside the Angloshere is rotten to the core. The Anglosphere is under attack everywhere.
Aptly named.
the important question.
did they get all the money back???
Screenshot....
One for the little kids, one for me, one for the little kids, oh, to heck with it. All for me. 💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵
If you mean the lawyers, then yes.
booooooo
She’ll be out in 6 months
Works out to about 10.7 million a year.
Not bad work if you can get it...
“did they get all the money back???’
Did they get all my money back?
Not enough time
I’d be amazed if she does one-third of that sentence.
Article says they are getting money back and taking back the fancy things she bought. But I’d wager a lot of the loot is hidden real well.
Primarily because of Democrats:
1. Senators like Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) and Philp Hart (D-Michigan)
2. Representatives like Emanuel Celler (D-Brooklyn, NY)
3. And democrat presidents like Lyndon B. Johnson.
Hart and Cellar cooked up the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 known as the Hart-Celler Act that fundamentally transformed U.S. immigration policy
by abolishing the national-origins quota.
Kennedy and Hart ramrodded the Hart-Cellr act through the senate while Celler and other democrats pushed it through congress.
Of course the Hart-Celler act could not have passed without the usual assistance of globalist republicans and their spineless republican peers.
The Hart-Celler Act replaced the national-origins quota system that favored Northern and Western Europe and opened immigration up to third world Cess Pits.
Kennedy, Hart, Celler and president LBJ knew very well that the Hart-Celler act WOULD DEFINATELY change the demographics and ethnic balance of the USA population
but lied to America about it because they believed that third World immigrants would be much more likely to vote democrat.
Especially as democrats expanded the Welfare State to buy votes with taxpayer paid "Free Stuff".
Senator Ted Kennedy's LIE to America in 1965:
"First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually.
Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset contrary to the charges in some quarters."
Demographic Breakdown Of US Population in 1965:
Demographic Breakdown Of US Population in 2025:
So democrats back in 19565 were essentially correct in their private assessment of what would happen as a result of the changes they brought about with the Hart-Celler act.
And for the last 60 years republicans have done nothing to correct immigration policy that has greatly favored democrats and is gradually bringing more and more of America onto the democrat plantation.
Pakistani — These 3rd worlders from muslim countries are robbing us blind. No more of them PLEASE!
7 years in the pokey and she repays $56 million of the $64 she stole. Taxpayers are ripped off enormously.
Zakia Khan stole $64 million = death penalty.
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