Mariana van Zeller

They were Nigerians.

I found out that there were some Nigerians that owned some of these rehab facilities.

Yeah.

But Americans, too.

I mean, there were a lot of them that were Americans.

So these guys are, like, driving around in Ferraris, and, you know, people are living in these fake centers.

I spoke to people who the therapy that they were billing, like, $2,500 for a therapy session, one-hour therapy session.

That was a Zoom meeting, a Zoom call with 600 people on the call.

And that's the therapy session.

It's bananas.

Or people who weren't even there and they billed for insurance and the people weren't even there.

It is insane.

You need a license, probably a state license, but in some cases it was just really easy to get a state license.

In Florida, it became a huge problem.

It was called the Florida Shuffle, which was this.

You were going back and forth between detox and rehabs and outpatient treatment centers, and they were all owned by the same sort of

you know well known fraudsters so you have to get a license but there's not much more and that was the problem is that anyone could get a license and anyone could operate one of these I was reading about a judge that recently got busted because this judge was sentencing people to the rehab that they owned that is

Wow.

Yeah.

Yeah.