Federal indictment sheds light on 2023 Eden Prairie raid

The mystery surrounding the raid at 11633 Welters Way in Eden Prairie last January is beginning to come into focus.

On Jan. 13, 2023, Eden Prairie Local News (EPLN) reported that the city’s police SWAT team – later clarified by police as a warrant service team – had assisted in a federal search of the home, located in the quiet Olympic Hills neighborhood. EPLN published a more extensive follow-up later that month, detailing the raid and raising questions about the ongoing federal investigation.

Now, more than two years later, federal prosecutors have unsealed a 24-page indictment charging Gabriel Adam Alexander Luthor – also known as Gabriel Adam Alexander Langford – and Elizabeth Christine Brown with six counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering.

Luthor, 39, and Brown, 42, are described in court documents as Minnesota residents.

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The indictment alleges that Luthor and Brown operated a years-long scheme to defraud Medicare, Medicaid, and other insurers of more than $15 million through their company, Golden Victory Medical LLC. The charges stem from what prosecutors describe as systematic overbilling for neurofeedback therapy and other services that were either inflated or never provided.

From 2018 through at least 2022, Luthor and Brown allegedly used billing codes – including the government’s authorized Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes – to falsely bill insurers for services their company either exaggerated or never performed. They submitted claims that misrepresented the duration of services, used incompatible or inapplicable billing combinations, and continued these practices even after warnings from insurers, an outside auditor, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Prosecutors say the two used the proceeds from the scheme to finance an extravagant lifestyle that included the purchase of a 9,000-square-foot Eden Prairie mansion in 2019, as well as covering living expenses for themselves and several of Luthor’s girlfriends who lived with them.

The indictment alleges that Luthor and Brown were in a relationship and living together in Nevada when they founded Golden Victory Medical in 2018. Both had previously lived in Minnesota. Brown, who held bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing, obtained a Nevada license as an advanced practice registered nurse and accepted a contract with a local family medical practice serving elderly patients.

At Brown’s suggestion, the practice hired another of Luthor’s girlfriends – referred to in court documents as Individual A –to assist her. By April 2018, Luthor and Brown had incorporated Golden Victory Medical and began running their services through the new business entity.

After the medical practice ended its relationship with them in 2019, the pair moved back to Minnesota. Brown purchased the Welters Way property that same year for $1.05 million. Joining them in the home were Individual A, Individual B, and later, another woman described by prosecutors as one of Luthor’s girlfriends.

Golden Victory Medical expanded rapidly in 2020 and 2021, opening new offices in Stillwater, Oklahoma; Wichita, Kansas; Delray Beach, Florida; and Ponte Vedra, Florida. The company employed nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and administrative staff to provide mental health services, including neurofeedback therapy. At its peak, the business employed about 45 people nationwide.

The criminal investigation became public on Jan. 12, 2023, when law enforcement served a federal search warrant at the Welters Way residence. Eden Prairie Police Chief Matt Sackett, who was at the scene, told neighbors the search posed no public safety threat. The search was part of a larger investigation led by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and supported by multiple federal agencies.

Golden Victory Medical shut down shortly afterward. Prosecutors say Luthor, Brown, and others fled Minnesota.

Earlier this week, Luthor and Brown made their initial appearances in U.S. District Court in Nevada.

Editor’s note: Contributor Frank Farrell is a member of the EPLN Board of Directors and a resident of Welters Way. Farrell, who is also an attorney, witnessed some of the events reported in EPLN’s 2023 coverage of the raid.