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Timmy G. Robinson Jr.

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The profile

The founder and owner of Addiction Recovery Care, an eastern Kentucky drug-treatment chain, indicted in June 2026 on charges that he sold the company's two pending Employee Retention Credit refunds twice, taking $2,721,761 from one buyer and $4,739,843.18 from a second, then kept the IRS money when it arrived. The charges are allegations.

Identity and role

Timmy G. Robinson Jr., 50 when indicted, of Louisa, Kentucky, is a licensed Kentucky attorney who owned and ran Addiction Recovery Care, LLC (ARC), which operates residential and outpatient drug rehabilitation facilities across the state, according to the indictment and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky. The case is United States v. Robinson, No. 0:26-cr-00033 (E.D. Ky.).

The case and pandemic-relief role

The case is about the market that grew up around slow ERC refunds. A business with a pending claim could sell its right to the refund at a discount for cash now.

ARC claimed two ERC refunds: $3,319,220 on first-quarter 2021 wages, filed around August 2023, and $3,589,252 on second-quarter 2021 wages, filed around April 2025. According to the indictment, on about July 18, 2025 Robinson signed an agreement selling the first credit to "Buyer 1," which wired $2,721,761 on July 22, about 82 cents per dollar of credit. The deal required ARC to release a third-party lien within 60 days. When it did not, on about September 24, 2025 Robinson assigned the second credit to Buyer 1 as well, in exchange for 30 more days.

In October and November 2025, the indictment says, he offered both credits through a broker to "Buyer 2" and represented in writing that they had not been sold or encumbered. On November 12, 2025 Buyer 2 wired an initial payment of $4,739,843.18 to an ARC account at Community Trust Bank. On December 2, 2025 the IRS paid both credits to ARC, and Robinson "directed ARC not to convey these funds" to either buyer, according to the indictment.

The two money-laundering counts are wire payments Robinson authorized after the second buyer paid and before the IRS did: $325,000 to an ARC account at Truist Bank on November 17, 2025 and $997,500 to the law firm Neubert, Pepe & Monteith, P.C. on November 22.

  • Indicted: June 4, 2026, on one count of wire fraud (maximum 20 years) and two counts of money laundering under 18 U.S.C. § 1957 (maximum 10 years each). The indictment seeks forfeiture in an amount not yet fixed.
  • Robinson has not been convicted; the charges are allegations.
  • ARC's Medicaid settlement: on July 27, 2026 ARC and its affiliates Pioneer Health Group and Science Hill Family Care agreed to a civil judgment of $16,205,774.05 to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they billed Kentucky Medicaid for behavioral health services as if they had been provided by higher-licensed clinicians and as individual rather than group therapy. The case began with an April 2023 whistleblower suit by current and former employees; ARC self-disclosed some improper billing during the investigation.

Where they are now (2025–2026)

The criminal case was pending at the time of the last record we found. The question of which buyer owns the two ERC refunds is not decided by the indictment, which charges the lie to the second buyer.

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