Drummond: Operation Sooner Shield protects vulnerable Oklahomans, recovers tax dollars
OKLAHOMA CITY (April 1, 2026) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) wrapped up investigations this week in 10 counties across Oklahoma, resulting in 10 arrests, two surrenders, 10 criminal cases and one civil action. More than $1.5 million in restitution and fines was identified in the collective enforcements.
The investigation, titled Operation Sooner Shield, targeted abusive and fraudulent misconduct by healthcare providers. Among the individuals who face criminal charges are Christa Lee Rogoff, Marcella Jean Freed and Patricia Gail Bush.
Rogoff, a training specialist at Chickasha Opportunity Center, is charged with neglect by a caretaker after failing to use wheelchair restraints, which resulted in a patient falling out of a wheelchair and down an escalator. The patient suffered severe injuries.
Freed, while working as the business manager for Bartlesville Health and Rehab Center, stole money from four residents and used the funds for personal expenses. She faces three counts of exploitation of the elderly.
Bush, a licensed nursing home administrator, is charged with two counts of exploitation of elderly persons or disabled adults and financial neglect by a caretaker after exploiting three residents at the Haskell County Nursing Center.
In the civil action, the Neuropathy Treatment Clinic of Oklahoma and James Warren Linn, Jr. are named in a lawsuit for scheming to bill the Oklahoma Medicaid program for administering treatments regardless of patients’ demonstrated medical needs. The State is seeking a judgment in excess of $75,000 for relief, damages and penalties.
“This operation demonstrates my office’s steadfast commitment to protecting vulnerable Oklahomans, combatting fraud and holding bad actors accountable to the law,” Drummond said. “These fraudsters abused the system and innocent Oklahomans. Now, they will face the consequences of their actions.”
Agents, investigators and attorneys from Drummond’s office coordinated with MFCU units in Kansas, Tennessee and Texas during this operation.
For Federal Fiscal Year 2026, Oklahoma Medicaid has a budget of over $10 billion, of which 82% comes from federal funding. The remaining 22% comes from State funding sources. Drummond said these funds are critical to providing safe, meaningful health care needed by many Oklahomans.
The Oklahoma Medicaid system, also known as SoonerCare and SoonerSelect, consists of nearly 80,000 contracted health care providers across all 77 Oklahoma counties. In 2025, Oklahoma’s Medicaid system served more than 1 million Oklahomans. More than half of those patients were children.
All defendants in these enforcement actions are presumed innocent until proven guilty of the allegations set forth in the cases filed against them.
Read the filings.
About MFCU: The Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office Medicaid Fraud Control Unit receives 75% percent of its funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under a federal grant award totaling $4,765,464.00 for federal fiscal year 2026. The remaining 25% percent, totaling $1,588,483.00 for FY 2026, is funded by the State of Oklahoma. The federal fiscal year 2026 is defined as October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026.
