Attorney sentenced in Medicaid fraud scheme involving Rolls-Royce collection
Lawyer Timothy Mark Anderson, 67, of Garner, Iowa, pleaded guilty in October 2025 to a charge of Medicaid fraud involving the phony sales of a Rolls-Royce Phantom V from his luxury car collection. He was sentenced earlier this month to six months in federal prison. (Image from Shutterstock)
An Iowa attorney was sentenced earlier this month to six months in federal prison after pleading guilty to a Medicaid fraud charge involving phony sales from his Rolls-Royce collection to elderly clients.
Lawyer Timothy Mark Anderson, 67, of Garner, Iowa, pleaded guilty in October 2025 to making a false statement relating to a health care matter, according to a Sept. 28 press release from the U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District of Iowa.
U.S. District Court Judge Leonard T. Strand of the Northern District of Iowa also fined Anderson $25,000 and ordered him to make $184,274.36 in restitution to Iowa Medicaid.
Prosecutors said Anderson steered elderly clients and their heirs to “buy” vehicles from his luxury car collection to help them become eligible for Medicaid. Anderson told the families to have the elderly people “gift” the same vehicles to the heirs, who then “sold” the vehicles back to Anderson at a lower price.
In one case, an elderly couple who wanted to become eligible for Medicaid bought a 1961 Rolls-Royce Phantom V for $186,000 from Anderson, who then wrote Iowa Medicaid and provided documents to qualify the husband for Iowa Medicaid benefits.
During sentencing, Strand found that Anderson’s luxury vehicle sales to the elderly Medicaid applicants were “obviously fraudulent and illegal.”
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