The accused · Flushing · He pleaded

Daniel Lee

Guilty plea · $127 million · Happy Life · Royal Adult Day Care

• $127 millionMedicare and Medicaid bills in the plea
• $100,000+Cash recovered in the search at Happy Life
• $900,000Fraud proceeds seized from bank accounts
• 30 yearsMaximum. The sentence is not set.
• 2 March 2027Sentencing date

1. 11 July 2026Shirley and Oz on camera in Flushing. Not the plea.
2. 9 November 2026Daniel Lee pleads guilty. Health care fraud and money laundering.
3. 10 November 2026Justice Department announces it. Press release 26-1341. The release
4. 2 March 2027Sentencing date. No sentence yet. Maximum 30 years.

“Yesterday’s guilty plea marks the end of the defendant’s long running and staggering fraud against the Medicare and Medicaid programs.”

The Nick Shirley story

Nick Shirley brought the cameras. On 11 July 2026 he walked into Flushing with Dr. Oz, and the New York Post put the film online. Ten seconds of it run above.

Four months later the case reached a courtroom. On 9 November 2026 Daniel Lee pleaded guilty, and on 10 November the Justice Department described a scheme of about $127 million in Medicare and New York Medicaid bills. Agents recovered more than $100,000 in cash at Happy Life and seized about $900,000 from bank accounts.

Shirley is the interviewer, not the defendant. The film is not the plea, and its own claims are not printed here. The Lee figures here come from Justice Department release 26-1341; the other cases cite their own sources. Sentencing is 2 March 2027. There is no sentence yet.