DALLAS, Texas — A Texas physician and a retired U.S. Postal Service employee have been charged in federal court in Dallas in what prosecutors describe as a years-long scheme to defraud the federal workers' compensation program of approximately $19 million in fraudulent medical claims, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas has announced.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Northern District of Texas
United States Attorney Ryan Raybould announced that a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment on October 7 charging Dr. Javaria Jabeen and Allendor Kenyon Brown with conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Both defendants were arrested and made their initial court appearances on October 14, according to the Justice Department. The charges are allegations only, and both defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Northern District of Texas
How the alleged scheme worked
According to the indictment, from 2017 to 2023 the defendants submitted false and fraudulent claims to the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP) at the U.S. Department of Labor. The claims were made under the Federal Employees' Compensation Act (FECA), the program that provides medical and wage benefits to federal employees who are injured on the job — the safety net that pays for treatment when a postal worker, a federal clerk or another government employee is hurt at work.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Northern District of Texas
Dr. Jabeen, a licensed Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, owned and operated multiple clinics in Flower Mound and Grand Prairie, two suburbs in the Dallas–Fort Worth area. Prosecutors allege that Dr. Jabeen, working with chiropractor Demitrious Gilmore and with Brown's assistance, billed FECA for medical equipment and services that were ineligible for reimbursement, medically unnecessary, or never provided at all.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Northern District of Texas
The indictment lists the alleged billing in detail: expensive knee braces that claimants did not need or never received; physical therapy sessions that did not occur; and platelet-rich plasma (PRP) infusions and at-home ultrasonic devices that prosecutors say were allegedly never performed or provided. Becker's, the health-care trade publication that independently reported the charges, summarised the case as billing for orthopedic equipment and services that patients did not need or never received.
Source: Becker's ASC
Brown's alleged role was on the people side of the scheme. A retired Postal Service employee and a former union official, he is accused of recruiting federal employees to the clinics and of helping to secure approvals of FECA claims. The indictment alleges he was compensated through an entity registered in his control, a step prosecutors say was used to conceal the payments.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Northern District of Texas
Where the case came from
The case grew out of the July 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown. In that earlier round, prosecutors in the Northern District of Texas charged Demitrious Gilmore with conspiracy to commit health care fraud — and his indictment referred to two unindicted coconspirators: a physician and a former Postal Service employee and union official. Gilmore later pleaded guilty. The superseding indictment announced this month now charges those two previously unidentified people by name: Dr. Jabeen and Brown.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Northern District of Texas
"Those who exploit federal programs designed to protect injured workers undermine both the integrity of our system and the trust of the public," said U.S. Attorney Ryan Raybould. "As alleged, these defendants orchestrated a years-long scheme that siphoned millions of dollars from a program meant to help dedicated federal employees recover from on-the-job injuries." U.S. Department of Labor Inspector General Anthony P. D'Esposito said the indictment "alleges a calculated, years-long conspiracy to conceal payments and to steal millions of dollars in taxpayer funds through fabricated medical claims for unnecessary services that were not performed," adding: "Every dollar lost to healthcare fraud threatens the system designed to protect injured federal workers."
In total, prosecutors say, the conspirators submitted roughly $19 million in fraudulent claims, resulting in at least $17 million in payments from the FECA program, and the indictment alleges that the defendants and their coconspirators each received a share of the proceeds.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Northern District of Texas
What happens next
The investigation was conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Inspector General and the U.S. Postal Service's Office of Inspector General. Assistant U.S. Attorney Douglas Brasher of the Fraud Section is prosecuting the case. U.S. Postal Service OIG Special Agent in Charge Jonathan Ulrich said the charges are "a reminder that some in the healthcare industry continue to place greed over patient care." If convicted, each defendant faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison; a federal district court judge would determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors. No trial date has been announced in the releases.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Northern District of Texas
For readers, the case is a reminder of how fraud against a workers' compensation program lands on ordinary people twice over: the money comes from taxpayers, and every dollar paid on a fabricated claim is a dollar taken from the system that injured federal employees — including the postal workers who deliver mail in every Texas neighbourhood — rely on when they are genuinely hurt. The Justice Department stresses that an indictment is merely an allegation of criminal conduct, and Dr. Jabeen and Mr. Brown are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General