Addiction Recovery Care founder indicted for wire fraud and money laundering

Date: June 4, 2026

Contact: newsroom@ci.irs.gov

Lexington, KY – The founder and owner of Addiction Recovery Care, LLC (ARC), Timmy G. Robinson Jr. was indicted on Thursday for one count of wire fraud and two counts of money laundering. 

The indictment alleges that in July 2025, Robinson caused ARC to enter into a sales agreement wherein the buyer made a $2.7 million advance payment in exchange for ARC’s rights to an anticipated tax refund from the IRS called Employee Retention Credit (ERC). This ERC was calculated based on ARC’s payroll information for the first quarter of 2021. In September 2025, Robinson caused ARC to assign its rights to another ERC, based on the second quarter of 2021 payroll, to the same buyer. According to the indictment, in November 2025, notwithstanding these prior sales and assignments, Robinson caused ARC to sell the very same assets – its first and second quarter 2021 ERCs – to a second buyer. Robinson falsely represented that the assets were available to purchase and, in an electronically signed sales agreement transmitted via interstate wire, falsely represented that the assets had not previously been sold or encumbered. As a result, the second buyer paid ARC a $4.7 million advance payment for the ERCs on Nov. 12, 2025. This conduct is alleged to constitute wire fraud. Robinson then engaged in significant monetary transactions with these proceeds, which are alleged to constitute money laundering. According to the indictment, when the IRS issued the ERC payments to ARC in December 2025, Robinson directed ARC not to repay either buyer. 

Jason Parman, First Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky; Karen Wingerd, Special Agent in Charge, IRS-Criminal Investigation, Detroit Field Division; and Olivia Olson, Special Agent in Charge, FBI Louisville Field Office, jointly announced the indictment.

The investigation was conducted by the IRS-Criminal Investigation and the FBI. Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul McCaffrey is prosecuting the case on behalf of the United States.

A date for Robinson to appear in court has not yet been scheduled. Robinson faces up to 20 years in prison on the wire fraud charge and 10 years in prison on each of the money laundering charges.

IRS-CI is the law enforcement arm of the IRS, responsible for conducting financial crime investigations, including tax fraud, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, public corruption, healthcare fraud, identity theft and more. It is the only federal law enforcement agency with investigative jurisdiction over violations of the Internal Revenue Code. IRS-CI has 18 field offices located across the U.S. and maintains an international presence through attaché posts abroad.