In June 2025, U.S. Attorney Hayden P. O’Byrne announced criminal charges against 37 defendants, including 41-year-old Jacquez Dion Tullis of Tamarac, Florida, in a wide-ranging scheme to unlawfully distribute controlled substances and defraud federal health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
Tullis, along with Taneka Nakia Pace, 49, of Miami, and Junaque Nicole Tullis, 44, of Coral Springs, were indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, and wire fraud. The indictment alleges the defendants orchestrated a scheme that defrauded financial institutions of approximately $1.78 million through fraudulent credit applications tied to cosmetic surgery clinics that never provided medical services.
According to court documents, the defendants established six cosmetic surgery clinics and submitted applications for merchant accounts to financial institutions offering lines of credit for out-of-pocket medical expenses. Using stolen personal information without consent, they falsely certified that these clinics would provide cosmetic surgeries and related treatments, which never occurred. The individuals named on the applications neither needed nor requested the treatments.
Additionally, the defendants face wire fraud charges for submitting fraudulent loan applications to the Small Business Administration. These loans, intended as emergency financial assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic, were also part of the deceptive scheme.
The FBI’s Miami office led the investigation, with prosecutions handled by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Will J. Rosenzweig and Sandra Demirci.
These charges are part of the Department of Justice’s 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, a coordinated effort involving multiple federal agencies and state attorneys general to combat health care fraud nationwide.
Separately, a related Scott County, Iowa case is ongoing. Earlier in 2025, a Florida man was jailed in Scott County after allegedly depositing fraudulent U.S. Savings Bonds at three Davenport credit unions, according to local police reports.
