JUST IN: Haitian Fraudster Convicted in $58M Healthcare Scheme

A Haitian man living in Florida has just been convicted for his role in a massive $58 million healthcare scheme.

Jean Jethro Alexandre and his co-conspirators filed false claims targeting Medicare and Medicaid then stole millions of dollars through insurance reimbursements.

This fraudster used the stolen cash to fund a lifestyle of luxury, which included the purchase of a multi-million dollar mansion and several expensive cars.

Here are the details:

🚨 BREAKING: A Haitian national in Florida was just convicted in a healthcare fraud conspiracy involving more than $58 MILLION in false claims targeting Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers

HE WILL BE DEPORTED 🔥

Jean Jethro Alexandre and his fellow fraudsters uses FAKE… pic.twitter.com/LASdE3vfg1

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 15, 2026

BREAKING: A Haitian national in Florida was just convicted in a healthcare fraud conspiracy involving more than $58 MILLION in false claims targeting Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers

HE WILL BE DEPORTED 🔥

Jean Jethro Alexandre and his fellow fraudsters uses FAKE patients, offered them illegal KICKBACKS to accept fraudulent prescriptions, and stole the money through insurance reimbursements

He used the proceeds to buy an entire MANSION near Miami, a fleet of LUXURY cars including a Bentley and multiple Mercedes, and multiple investment properties 🤯

The fraud happened under the 340B Drug Pricing Program, which might need SERIOUS changes so this can never happen again!

Alexandre will be officially deported after serving his sentence

Jean Jethro Alexandre has been sentenced to just under 10 years in prison for fraud.

After he finishes serving out his sentence, he will be deported.

Good riddance!

Here’s another look at his mugshot:

BREAKING: Haitian man sentenced to prison for a $58 million healthcare scheme exploiting the 340B drug discount program. The fraudster used fake patients and fake prescriptions through a nonprofit clinic to steal from Medicare and Medicaid, using the proceeds to purchase a $2.5M… pic.twitter.com/VOKWCB27AB

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 15, 2026

In addition to highlighting the fraud happening across our nation, this case is raising questions about the federal program that Alexandre exploited to pull off the scheme.

Fox News reported further:

Members of Congress are calling for increased oversight and reform after a Haitian national in Florida was convicted in a healthcare fraud conspiracy that prosecutors said involved more than $58 million in false claims targeting Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers using a federal drug discount program.

Prosecutors accused Jean Jethro Alexandre and his co-conspirators in 2025 of recruiting fake patients and offering them financial kickbacks if they accepted fraudulent prescriptions — primarily for HIV and AIDS medication — written by nurse practitioners involved in the operation, according to court documents reviewed by Fox News Digital. Alexandre would then cash in on the scheme through insurance reimbursements for filling the fake prescriptions.

He used the proceeds from his scheme to bankroll a life of luxury, including a fleet of top-end cars, a mansion near Miami and a slate of investment properties.

The case is drawing renewed scrutiny to the 340B Drug Pricing Program, a decades-old federal initiative designed to help safety-net providers serve low-income patients that is increasingly being criticized by lawmakers and industry groups who say weak oversight has allowed bad actors to exploit the system. Advocates for reform may point to Alexandre’s case as evidence that the program is in need of tweaks to reduce the risk of fraud.

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“The 340B program was created with good intentions to help vulnerable and underserved patients access care, but unfortunately, it has evolved into a massive, poorly supervised program with weak transparency and accountability safeguards,” Rep. Diana Harshbarger, herself a pharmacist, told Fox News Digital. “Cases like this demonstrate how the current structure can create opportunities for bad actors to exploit deeply discounted drugs, questionable contract pharmacy arrangements and opaque reimbursement practices for personal profit.”

“When there is limited federal oversight, little transparency into how 340B revenues are used, and enormous financial spreads between discounted acquisition costs and insurer reimbursements, it should not surprise anyone that fraudsters see the program as a target,” she said.

Alexandre used a nonprofit health clinic that he secretly co-owned to purchase drugs at a discounted rate using the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program and had the prescriptions filled by pharmacies, who provided Alexandre’s clinic with reimbursements paid by insurers, including Medicare and Medicaid. The arrangement allowed Alexandre and his colleagues to pocket the difference between what he was paid in reimbursements and what the drugs cost him through the discount program.

While this is a legitimate way for healthcare providers to generate revenue generally, according to the Government Accountability Office, Alexandre’s conduct was illegal because the underlying prescriptions were fake. Prosecutors allege, for instance, that in some cases the drugs were simply destroyed after being dispensed to fraudulent patients.

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What do you think?

Should the government crack down harder on programs like the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program?