Addiction Recovery Care Founder indicted for wire fraud and money laundering
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The founder and owner of Addiction Recovery Care, LLC has been indicted for one count of wire fraud and two counts of money laundering.
According to the United States Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Kentucky, 50-year-old Timmy G. Robinson was indicted Thursday.
Officials say an indictment states that in July 2025, Robinson caused Addiction Recovery Care to enter a sales agreement where the buyer made a $2.7 million advance payment in exchange for ARC’s rights to an expected tax refund from the IRS.
According to officials, the tax refund was calculated based on ARC’s payroll information for the first quarter of 2021. In September 2025, officials say Robinson “caused ARC to assign its rights to another ERC, based on the second quarter of 2021 payroll, to the same buyer.”
The indictment states that in November of 2025, Robinson caused ARC to sell the very same assets to a second buyer.
Robinson “falsely represented that the assets were available to purchased, and, in an electronically signed sales agreement transmitted via interstate wire, falsely represented that the assets had no previously been sold or encumbered,” the indictment states..
As a result, officials say the second buyer paid ARC a $4.7 million advance payment for the ERCs on November 12, 2025. According to officials, this is alleged to be wire fraud.
Robinson engaged in “significant monetary transactions with these proceeds, which are alleged to constitute money laundering,” officials say. According to the indictment, when the IRS issued the ERC payments to ARC in December 2025, Robinson directed ARC not to repay either buyer.
A date for Robinson 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.
