Timothy Mark Anderson

Introduction

Timothy Mark Anderson, a 67-year-old attorney from Garner, Iowa, was sentenced on September 11, 2026, to six months in federal prison for making a false statement to Iowa Medicaid as part of a scheme that used his own Rolls-Royce collection to make wealthy elderly clients appear eligible for taxpayer-funded nursing home care . Anderson pleaded guilty on October 30, 2025, to one count of false statement relating to a health care matter. Between 2017 and 2022, prosecutors say, he directed elderly clients and their heirs through sham purchase-and-gift transactions with his luxury vehicles so the clients could qualify for Medicaid-funded care while keeping assets in the family.

Background Information

Anderson was licensed to practice law in Iowa and ran a law office in Garner offering financial, tax, and estate planning services, including helping elderly clients establish Medicaid eligibility — a benefit program with strict asset limits for nursing home coverage . Iowa Medicaid rules exempt one automobile of any value if it is used to transport the applicant or a household member. That exemption is the hinge of the scheme prosecutors described: Anderson was also, in the release’s words, “an avid collector of Rolls-Royce and other luxury vehicles,” and he put that collection to work inside his clients’ eligibility applications.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

According to evidence at his plea and sentencing hearings, Anderson told elderly individuals and their heirs to take part in a series of purported transactions with his vehicles between 2017 and 2022: the elderly person would “buy” one of his Rolls-Royce or other luxury cars before applying for Medicaid, later “gift” the car to the heirs, and the heirs would then “sell” it back to Anderson at a lower price . The supposed purchasers, the release notes, mostly never drove the vehicles and for the most part never saw them.

One example from the release shows the mechanics in detail. In 2021, an elderly couple with more than $400,000 in assets — including a $30,000 Chevrolet Equinox — wanted Medicaid to pay nursing home expenses while passing assets to their heirs. In October 2021, Anderson deposited a $186,000 check from the wife into his personal savings account and gave her a certificate of title to a 1961 Rolls-Royce Phantom V, with a bill of sale stating the transfer happened October 18, 2021. Two days before that stated date, Anderson had driven the Phantom V, crashed it, and left it inoperable in a farm shop. On November 4, 2021, he wrote to Iowa Medicaid with documents qualifying the husband for benefits, including one stating the wrecked Phantom V had a fair market value of $194,000 — a figure he knew to be false at the time he submitted it.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The announcement came from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa and the FBI, which investigated; Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy L. Vavricek prosecuted . Sentencing Judge Leonard T. Strand found that Anderson’s luxury-vehicle sales to elderly Medicaid applicants were “obviously fraudulent and illegal,” and imposed six months’ imprisonment, a $25,000 fine, $184,274.36 in restitution to Iowa Medicaid, and two years of supervised release. The release does not indicate any state bar disciplinary action, though a federal fraud conviction by a licensed attorney typically triggers licensing review; no such action is recorded in the cited release, so this page records none.

Current Status

Anderson was released on the previously set bond and ordered to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on a date yet to be set as of the release . His conviction is by guilty plea, so the conduct stands admitted rather than alleged. The case number is 25-CR-3053 in the Northern District of Iowa. Once incarcerated, he will begin the two-year supervised release term after the six-month sentence, and the restitution obligation to Iowa Medicaid remains payable.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The conviction ends Anderson’s career of handling other people’s eligibility paperwork: an attorney with a federal health-care-fraud conviction faces the loss of the licenses and trust his Garner practice depended on, in addition to the prison term, fine, restitution, and supervised release imposed by the court. The scheme’s victims in a real sense include the Medicaid program itself, which he was ordered to repay. The release records no appeal, and the surrender date was still pending as of its publication, meaning his imprisonment had not yet begun when the case became public.

Sources

• DOJ press release, “Iowa Attorney Sent to Federal Prison in Medicaid Fraud Scheme Involving His Rolls-Royce Vehicle Collection,” U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Iowa, September 28, 2026 source