California Hospices RAIDED In $267 Million Medi-Cal Scam After Enrolling Healthy Strangers As Dying

On April 8, California Department of Justice tactical teams executed early-morning search warrants across 12 Southern California locations in “Operation Skip Trace,” seizing more than $757,000 in cash, two handguns, and uncovering what Attorney General Rob Bonta called a $267 million Medi-Cal hospice fraud scheme involving 21 charged defendants and 14 hospice companies. According to three felony complaints filed by the state, operators purchased the personal identifying information of healthy people living outside California on the dark web, enrolled them into Medi-Cal through Covered California, and billed taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars for end-of-life hospice care on people who were neither dying nor living in the state. With $30 million recovered and $40 million in state checks stopped before payout, who is the still-unidentified figure known in the court filings only as “Mike,” and will California taxpayers ever recover the rest of the $267 million?

In this report

• The January 31, 2025 state check for $2.24 million payable to CarePartners that landed in a bank account controlled by a single individual
• Inside the 7:04 a.m. police bodycam raid across 12 locations: ballistic shields, a G-Wagon in the garage, $757,000 in seized cash, and 21 suspects charged
• How Legit Systems Billing Solutions—led by CEO Roberto Rubillar Jr. and corporate secretary Liezyl Rubillar—allegedly used Hospice MD software to submit claims for at least 12 hospices
• The dark-web identity trick: how healthy, out-of-state residents were secretly enrolled through Covered California as terminally ill Medi-Cal hospice patients
• Inside Van Nuys’s Merabi Plaza—where dozens of hospices shared a single building—and why state investigators found disconnected phone numbers on the doors
• How Rafo Pogosian paid $200,000 in check and cash for Light of Life Hospice, signed the contract only as a witness, and began billing after a text from an unidentified figure named “Mike”
• The money trail across 130+ shell companies: Muslim Borkhadzhiev’s 14 state checks, cryptocurrency transfers, and how roughly $33 million flowed into accounts tied to Sarkis Ksachikyan

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