White House Exposes Stunning Taxpayer-Funded Luxury Haul

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.”

The CBS Mornings segment was clipped one day earlier by NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck, who pointed to the same report as part of a broader look at entitlement fraud in California.

The CBS segment put the taxpayer-funded mansion, cars, and memorabilia in front of viewers before the White House amplified the clip.

While the newly-fired and remaining staff CBS’s ‘60 Minutes’ continue to scream I AM SPARTACUS at editor-in-chief @BariWeiss, @CBSMornings kept up its ongoing commitment to spotlighting entitlement fraud, specifically in Gavin Newsom’s California.

Correspondent Adam Yamaguchi… pic.twitter.com/O2u7CFKnZa

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 1, 2026

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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.