Democrats told Americans the pandemic was a crisis that demanded blind trust in government programs.
Now one of the men who ran those programs just admitted in federal court what he was really doing.
But you’ll be stunned by the billing practices that Fast Lab Technologies COO Hasan Seyhun pleaded guilty to routinely doing.
The Scheme That Billed Before the Tests Even Shipped
Seyhun, 45, of Miami, served as Chief Operating Officer of Fast Lab Technologies – a New York-based company that offered Americans "free" COVID-19 tests during the pandemic.
The catch: the tests weren't free for your insurance company.
Fast Lab collected customers' insurance information when they ordered online, then billed Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, and private insurers for medical services that never happened.
The company claimed antigen tests had been supervised by doctors, saliva samples gathered by clinical staff, and PCR lab work performed on those samples.
None of it was true.
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And according to court documents, Seyhun's operation was so confident in the scheme that they submitted insurance claims before test kits were even delivered to the customer.
The bill went out before the test kit arrived at your door.
Fast Lab logged more than $500 million in fraudulent claims to government-backed health programs.
Seyhun personally received $4.3 million from the scheme – the amount he has now been ordered to forfeit.
His co-conspirators – Fast Lab CEO Cemhan "Jimmy" Biricik and Medical Director Dr. Martin Perlin – were charged in July 2025 and face more than 50 counts of healthcare fraud each.
Trump's Fraud Hunters Are Just Getting Started
U.S. Attorney Jerome Gorgon put it plainly: "Ripping off the American taxpayer is bad enough. Using the fear and isolation of the COVID pandemic to do it is sickening."
Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald of Trump's National Fraud Enforcement Division went further.
"At a time when Americans were scared for their families and their futures, Hasan Seyhun saw an opportunity to turn a national crisis into his own personal payday," McDonald said.
His message to anyone still running COVID-era schemes: "The Fraud Division will not let up in its relentless pursuit of COVID era fraudsters."
This case is one piece of a much larger sweep.
The Trump administration announced the same week it had uncovered more than $1.2 billion in suspected fraud across five COVID-related contracts.
Trump's National Fraud Enforcement Division – launched in April 2026 as part of Vice President JD Vance's Task Force to Eliminate Fraud – stopped more than $340 million in schemes in its very first week of operation.
The COVID pandemic unlocked trillions of dollars in government spending practically overnight – and predators like Seyhun were ready.
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They built companies, hired staff, created websites, and constructed entire billing systems designed to drain Medicare and Medicaid while Americans were locked in their homes terrified.
Here's what the media won't tell you: this was predictable from day one.
Congress passed the CARES Act in March 2020 – $2.2 trillion in 96 hours – with almost no verification infrastructure attached to it.
Washington designed a system where the money moved at the speed of panic and the oversight moved at the speed of government.
Seyhun and his partners didn't exploit a loophole – they walked through a door Democrats left wide open and then kept it open for four years.
The Fast Lab scheme hit Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, and the Department of Labor – every major government health program in America, all drained by a single operation running out of New York.
That's not an accident.
That's what happens when nobody is watching.
Trump's approach is structurally different.
The National Fraud Enforcement Division doesn't just file cases – it coordinates IRS Criminal Investigation, the FBI, the HHS Inspector General, the Postal Inspection Service, and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service simultaneously.
Biden's team wasn't finding this money because Biden's team wasn't looking.
Trump's is.
Seyhun faces sentencing.
The CEO and Medical Director are still fighting their charges.
And the National Fraud Enforcement Division isn't done.
Sources:
- U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Michigan, "Chief Operating Officer Pleads Guilty for Role in $500M COVID-19 Test Billing Fraud," Department of Justice, September 24, 2026.
- U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Michigan, "CEO and Medical Director Charged in $500M COVID-19 Test Billing Fraud," Department of Justice, July 31, 2025.
- "Newly Launched DOJ Fraud Division Stops $340M in Schemes During First Week," NewsChannel 9, April 2026.
