Curtis Kurkova, left, with his husband Christian. Credit: Chris Rufo X screenshotAlarm bells are going off as a California man who supposedly works as a “respiratory therapist” has gotten obscenely rich in what appears to be one of the worst cases of Medicaid fraud yet.As City Journal’s Chris Rufo reported on Wednesday, Curtis Kurkova has a company called HeroCare that has at least $40.5 million in California Medicaid payments since 2020. Roughly $34.4 million of that was paid out between 2023 and 2024.Per Rufo, HeroCare earned the majority of its Medicaid revenue between 2020 and 2024 from a handful of basic plastic commodities.Flush with these tens of millions of dollars, Kurkova has spent lavishly. His largest purchase was a $28 million Hidden Hills mansion near where the Kardashians live.Kurkova and his husband also spent millions on sports cars, private jets, luxury resorts, and three additional homes. They have even partied in some of the most exclusive areas on the planet.WATCH:EXCLUSIVE: A respiratory therapist named Curtis Kurkova billed California Medicaid $40 million, then spent millions on sports cars, private jets, luxury resorts, and an enormous mansion next to the Kardashian house.The experts told us it had all the red flags for fraud. pic.twitter.com/kM6x8EzXno— Christopher F. Rufo (@christopherrufo) September 2, 2026But all of this money appears to be ill-gotten gains at the taxpayers’ expense.When Rufo and his team dug into Kurkova’s taxpayer-funded business, they discovered several major red flags. For example, the company website has no information on Kurkova, and its “Shop” page is empty.Moreover, its Facebook page has fewer than 30 followers.But that’s just the tip of the iceberg compared to what Rufo uncovered when he and his team visited the address listed on HeroCare’s website.Even more alarm bells went off when they arrived at Kurkova’s $28 million Hidden Hills home.More from Rufo:Our first stop was the address on HeroCare’s website. We arrived at a Chino medical plaza and headed to Unit 109, which the company listed as its street address on its most recently available Statement of Interest form. We rang the bell, and a woman answered the door.“Hero Health Care? I’m not sure,” she said. “This is Pristine Home Health.”We headed for Van Nuys, where HeroCare claimed on the form to have a mailing address. When we arrived at the site, we saw a small paper “HeroCare” sign taped to the window. The door was locked, and two brochures were stuck in the doorframe. When we returned weeks later, the HeroCare sign was gone.Finally, City Journal team members drove to Curtis Kurkova’s Hidden Hills mansion and rang the doorbell. They could hear a dog barking inside, but no one answered the door.The story gets even weirder. It turns out that Curtis Kurkova not only used to go by a different name, but also that some of the businesses he formed changed names.Unsurprisingly, little to no business appears to have occurred at these places. What is he hiding?More from Rufo:As we sifted through documents, we noticed some unusual patterns. A recent deed for the couple’s Big Bear City home, which they sold to another couple, revealed that Curtis Kurkova wasn’t always Curtis Kurkova. He previously went by Curtis Ray Hotchkiss Jr. and legally petitioned to change his name in 2023.The businesses that Curtis formed changed names, too. Between July 2024 and June 2025, Curtis created a separate entity and cycled through multiple LLCs: HeroCare East LLC, Hero Healthcare Group, HeroCare 2 LLC, before ultimately filing a certificate of cancellation, stating that HeroCare 2 “has not conducted any business.”Someone who appears to be Curtis’s brother, Michael Amar—a licensed respiratory practitioner previously known as Michael Hotchkiss—formed a separate company, Hero Healthcare Group, in 2025.Amar’s company lists the same phone number as one that HeroCare listed as its own number in a 2023 Facebook post.When Rufo and his team tried to reach out to Curtis Kurkova, Christian Kurkova, and Michael Amar, they received no response. But a lawyer named “Mike” responded and accused Rufo and his team of “homophobia.”And guess what happened after Rufo’s team returned to Kurkova’s home? Everyone and everything related to the Kurkovas vanished.City Journal team members went back to the $28 million mansion in Hidden Hills to ask the couple about HeroCare’s billing practices, but this time, the gates in front of the estate were shut tight. A Ferrari and a Genesis were parked in the driveway.Eventually, a Tesla left the house, but Curtis Kurkova wasn’t inside. Curtis and HeroCare, it seems, have vanished into thin air.The post Huge Red Flags Emerge as ‘Respiratory Therapist’ Gets Caught Billing California Medicaid for OVER $40 MILLION and Goes on INSANE Spending Spree with His Husband appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.