Florida man gets 84 months for $2.3m medical lender fraud using sham clinics

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A Wellington, Florida man was sentenced to seven years for a six-year scheme that registered sham cosmetic surgery clinics using stolen identities and extracted roughly $2.3 million from medical lenders, including two FDIC-insured banks and four financial technology firms. The case is part of the Justice Department's 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown and illustrates how merchant-onboarding controls were defeated.

• Tullis received 60 months for bank fraud conspiracy and a consecutive 24 months for aggravated identity theft, plus five years of supervised release.
• The scheme defrauded six medical lenders, two FDIC-insured banks and four fintech firms, of approximately $2.3 million by financing procedures that never occurred.
• Fraudulent credit card applications were submitted in the names of more than 100 individuals, some of whom had died before the dates they supposedly received care.
• Tullis was ordered to pay $2,309,859.44 in restitution and a forfeiture money judgment of the same amount, plus a $200 special assessment.
• Co-defendants Taneika Pace and Junaque Tullis were sentenced to six and eight months respectively for related bank and wire fraud conduct.

Executive summary

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida sentenced Jacquez Dion Tullis, 42, of Wellington, Florida, to 84 months in prison on November 12, 2026. Judge Rodolfo A. Ruiz II imposed 60 months on the bank fraud conspiracy…

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