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Robert Kayongo is in Arizona with ties to California, but now he’s linked to healthcare fraud, reportedly making at least thousands of dollars off vulnerable Native Americans.
A deal involving eight patients would have made Kayongo more than $30,000 a month. But, that deal was made up by special agents and ultimately led to the pastor’s arrest.
FOX 10 spoke exclusively to the facility that says Kayongo offered clients in exchange for cash.
It’s a half hour before noon on Aug. 31 outside a Dunkin' Donuts in Chandler near Riggs Road and Arizona Avenue. 53-year-old Robert Kayongo is met by special agents with the Arizona Attorney General’s Office just feet away from his van.
A probable cause statement says Kayongo wanted to meet there to close a deal with someone who actually was an undercover agent.
Investigators say Kayongo is a patient broker in a scheme targeting vulnerable people who need behavioral health treatment, offering food and housing at unlicensed sober living homes.
In this scheme, as long as a patient is enrolled in the American Indian Health Program under Arizona’s Medicaid agency, their ID is used to fraudulently bill the state for therapy services rarely provided.
But, what would Kayongo admit to investigators about the alleged business he ran outside of church hours?
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