A Palos Park man who operates a drug treatment center in Oak Lawn was among those charged with allegedly defrauding government programs out of millions of dollars that he used to pay for an extravagant lifestyle that included luxury cars, jewelry and a yacht named Butt Nekked.
Daniel Robinson, 51, was charged June 18 with two counts of healthcare fraud in a criminal complaint made public in U.S. District Court on Tuesday.
According to the charges against Robinson, he is the owner of ODA Solutions, a methadone clinic that offers both substance abuse services and mental health services from the same address at 4237 W. 95th St. in Oak Lawn.
According to the government’s lengthy 39-page complaint, from December 2023 to the present, ODA Solutions allegedly submitted hundreds of fraudulent claims to government-subsidized healthcare programs for services, collecting at least $75 million in that time frame.
ODA Solutions allegedly regularly submitted claims for hundreds of hours of counseling and therapy services per day, far beyond what its 16 providers could possibly have done even if they worked 24 hours per day.
“We look forward to taking the case to trial,” said Robinson’s attorney Michael Leonard. “We can’t figure out why they are focusing on us.”
Leonard said Robinson was arrested Sunday night in Florida and is being transferred from Miami to Chicago to face the charges.
“There was no reason to arrest him,” Leonard said. “He was traveling back to Illinois.”
Leonard said Robinson’s first court appearance will be after the Fourth of July holiday.
According to the complaint, when Medicaid-affiliated programs asked for proof of services, ODA Solutions would create dozens of fake visit notes purportedly documenting outpatient therapy sessions that never could have occurred — including one patient, identified in the complaint as B.S., who allegedly received five days’ worth of services in August 2024 even though the patient was hospitalized at the time with a gunshot wound to the head and later died.
The complaint said Robinson paid himself a handsome salary of $20,000 per week from July 2024 through March, totaling about $1.8 million.
During the same two-year time frame, Robinson diverted over $27.4 million from the Medicare payments to brokerage accounts he controlled, the complaint alleged. He spent another $4.1 million on real estate and home improvements, $1.3 million on diamonds, watches and other luxury items, and about $616,000 on vehicles, according to the charges.
The complaint also alleged Robinson laundered at least $10.1 million through a car dealership he set up in south suburban Chicago Heights with an associate, identified in the charges only as Individual A.
Once Robinson transferred funds from ODA Solutions to accounts in the name of the dealership, Car King Auto, Individual A used them to purchase luxury vehicles, including an $73,000 Bentley Continental GT V8, and an Azimut 43, 42-foot-long yacht named Maid Marion at a price of about $300,000. He later renamed the yacht Butt Nekked, according to the complaint.
According to the ODA Solutions website, Robinson “was born and raised in the South Suburbs of Chicago, where he struggled with addiction to crack cocaine and alcohol for many years. Unfortunately, his substance abuse led to a long and extensive criminal history that threatened to destroy his life and his future.”
The charges were part of a nationwide effort called the 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, which the Justice Department says resulted in charges against 455 defendants, including 90 doctors and other licensed medical professionals, involving more than $6.5 billion in false claims and “significant patient harm.”