Plain facts. No spin. If you want the polished bio, it is elsewhere on the site. This page is the straight answer to the questions people actually ask.
Over a long career I built and held interests in more than two hundred healthcare, biotech, and acute-care companies, including ventures that became publicly traded. Every criminal and civil case ever brought has been settled, dismissed, dropped, or fully served. Nothing is pending in court.
I funded the first cycles of the Andrew Hillman Scholarship for Entrepreneurs and the Andrew Hillman Grant for Biotech out of my own savings. Both run as annual one-thousand-dollar awards.
I ask that anyone evaluating me look at the complete record. That is what this page is.
What got dismissed, what got dropped, and what I served. Written plainly, for anyone who is not a lawyer.
Over the years, six separate cases involved me at some point. One ended in my guilty plea. Five ended without any conviction or judgment against me personally. The plain-English breakdown:
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Pled Guilty
· Served ·Forest Park Medical Center / NextHealth (2018–2019). I admitted I was guilty to two federal counts. I paid every dollar of the three-million-dollar restitution. I served twenty-three months and three weeks in custody. The court terminated my supervised release early. There is no probation. There are no continuing conditions. This is the case I own.U.S. v. Beauchamp et al., No. 3:16-CR-0516-D (N.D. Tex.)Primary source:GovInfo — USCOURTS-txnd-3_16-cr-00516 (full federal record)
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Dismissed
2005 case (Alpha Treatment Centers). The government itself asked the court to drop the charges against me. The court agreed. I was out of the case on September 21, 2006. The corporate co-defendant pled guilty later as a separate party. That was the company. It was not me.U.S. v. Hillman, No. 3:05-cr-00202 (N.D. Tex.)
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Dismissed
2018 medical-cannabis case (Valley Herbal Healing Center). The government itself asked the court to dismiss the indictment against me. The court agreed on April 18, 2019. I never pled guilty in this case. The matter was over.U.S. v. Hillman, Narosov, and Waldvogel, No. 3:18-cr-00401 (N.D. Tex.)
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Declined
2013 whistleblower lawsuit (qui tam). A private party filed a False Claims Act suit and asked the federal government to take it over. The government formally declined to intervene on December 12, 2014 under the standard FCA process. The case ended without any judgment against me.U.S. ex rel. v. U.S. Health Group, Inc., et al., No. 3:13-CV-0701-P (N.D. Tex.)
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Dropped
UnitedHealthcare civil lawsuit (2017). The plaintiffs themselves dismissed me from the case on August 18, 2020 as part of a settlement. No judgment against me individually.United Health Care Services v. Next Health, LLC, et al., No. 3:17-cv-00243-E-BT (N.D. Tex.)
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Dismissed
Proctor whistleblower lawsuit (2017, Next Health). I was dismissed from this case before it concluded. The court later entered a default judgment against the corporate entity, Next Health, LLC. That default judgment is against the company. It is not against me.U.S. ex rel. Proctor v. Next Health LLC et al., No. 4:17-cv-00169 (E.D. Tex.)
Net result, in plain English: One guilty plea, fully served, all restitution paid. Five other cases dismissed, dropped, or declined as to me personally. Nothing is pending in any court today. The only continuing federal consequence is administrative — an OIG healthcare-program exclusion, disclosed at the foot of this page.
I launched the scholarship and the grant on the day of my release, funded out of my own pocket, as a deliberate first act on the way out. The point was to put something in the world for someone else before I did anything else for myself. Both programs were launched in 2020 on my release, funded from personal savings, each carrying an annual award of one thousand dollars.
Beyond the scholarship and the grant, I mentor younger people in business, healthcare, and the practice of law. Most of that mentoring is unpaid; a smaller number of relationships are paid consulting engagements when the subject matter fits.
Scholarship · Annual
Andrew Hillman Scholarship for Entrepreneurs
An award for undergraduate students across the United States who demonstrate entrepreneurial vision and business ambition. Open to students at any accredited college or university nationwide. Announced via paid press release distribution (PR Newswire, syndicated to Yahoo Finance).
Visit programGrant · Annual
Andrew Hillman Grant for Biotech
An award recognizing emerging undergraduate talent in biotechnology, regenerative medicine, and life sciences. The 2026 application cycle is open. Announced via paid press release distribution (GlobeNewswire, syndicated to Yahoo Finance; Newsfile Corp at launch).
Visit program Read the paid announcement on Yahoo Finance →Community work in Dallas.
My son Ashton and I have participated in the annual 
KidSwing for Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, a youth-run golf tournament benefiting the hospital's pediatric orthopedic care. KidSwing has raised more than two million dollars for the hospital since its founding in 2003. Texas Scottish Rite Hospital provides orthopedic care to Texas children at no charge to patient families.
I am a Lamplighter School parent and donor. The Lamplighter School is an independent coeducational primary school in Dallas, Texas, serving students from age three through fourth grade. Primary-source recognition of the Hillman family donor record at Lamplighter: 2012–2013 Annual Fund Mid-Year Honor Roll (Lamplighter School), and the Lamppost, Fall 2013 (Lamplighter School), where the Hillman family is listed in the $5,000–9,999 giving tier. Earlier site copy referenced an innovation laboratory funded by my family. That specific designation is not corroborated in the two primary-source Lamplighter publications linked above, and I am leaving it off this page pending a Lamplighter document that names the program directly.
I am a 2024-cycle supporter of Heroes for Israel Project, a Florida-based 501(c)(3) that equips civilian volunteer first responders in Israel's border communities with life-saving equipment, security training, and shelter rehabilitation. Recipient status verifiable via the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search. Gift-amount documentation will be added to this page when the recipient publishes donor recognition or upon receipt of an acknowledgment letter that can be cited as primary source.
I coach youth soccer. I volunteer at Temple Emanu-El. I mentor younger people in business and healthcare without a fee. Most Saturdays involve one of my kids, a Dallas sports team, a bike ride, or all three.
Day to day, I work in the practice of law as a senior paralegal at a Dallas law firm, alongside expert-witness and consulting engagements. The senior paralegal role is real and active — my primary day job, not a title on a bio.
The reason this seat fits is straightforward: most experts on hospital operations, healthcare finance, and physician-aligned ventures have studied the industry; I built inside it for decades. The matters are what you would expect from that seat: case workup, investigation, document review, witness development, expert-side analysis. I also take consulting and expert-witness engagements directly when the subject matter fits my background in hospital operations, healthcare finance, and physician-aligned ventures.
Background: over the course of my career I have owned or held interests in more than two hundred healthcare, biotech, and acute-care companies, including ventures that were or became publicly traded on Nasdaq. Many were sold to public and private acquirers. That portfolio is the operating and finance background I bring to expert-witness and consulting work today. I am also a certified Six Sigma Black Belt and Black Belt trainer, which I draw on for process-analysis and operational-quality questions in matters where that lens is useful.
For the long-form professional history, see linkedin.com/in/andrew-hillman-dallas.
International healthcare advisory work.
Through Hillman Ventures I help international medical centers connect with leading U.S. medical institutions on groundbreaking work in three areas: non-toxic cancer care research, regenerative medicine, and advanced spinal procedures. One recent example, photographed below, was a partnership signing ceremony between Core Medical and Surgery Hospital of Tijuana, Mexico and Cedars-Sinai, a high-end U.S. medical institution based in Los Angeles, California. The collaboration brings U.S.-grade clinical and research infrastructure to cross-border patients seeking advanced therapies that are still in research stages in the United States.
As Plaintiff
Federal litigation I have brought, not just defended.
Hillman v. Ringleader Digital, Inc., No. 1:10-cv-08315 (S.D.N.Y., Judge Denise L. Cote). I was a named class representative in a federal class action against Ringleader Digital and, by consolidation and addition, a roster of large internet properties using the same covert mobile tracking, including GO2 Media, Inc., Surfline, WhitePages.com, The Travel Channel, CNN Money, Merriam-Webster's online dictionary, and Fox News, among others. The case alleged that the defendants had used HTML5 device-identifier "respawning" — a successor to Flash-cookie respawning — to track mobile users' online activity without consent, including the activity of children and other users who had not been disclosed to or consented to the collection, in violation of federal computer-fraud and privacy laws. The case was consolidated with the related Aughenbaugh action on March 21, 2011.
The Court approved a class-wide settlement under which Ringleader Digital agreed to work with the Mobile Marketing Association on industry tracking standards, delete data collected from users who had opted out, improve opt-out disclosures, and pay thirty thousand dollars to the named plaintiffs and six hundred seventy thousand dollars in class counsel fees. The case is cited in the privacy bar alongside In re Clearspring Flash Cookie Litigation and In re Quantcast Advertising Cookie Litigation as one of the early class settlements that drove industry-side change on covert mobile-device tracking.
In a 2011 post-mortem in Digiday, Ringleader Digital's chief executive Bob Walczak attributed the company's June 2011 shutdown in significant part to the class action, telling the publication: “The suit just took our lights out. There were a number of factors that contributed, but that was the straw that broke the camel's back.”
Docket: CourtListener — Hillman v. Ringleader Digital. Primary settlement document hosted by Covington & Burling's privacy practice: Ringleader Proposed Settlement (PDF, June 2013). Contemporaneous coverage: Wired, Privacy.org / EPIC, Marketing Dive (Mobile Marketer), and the Digiday post-mortem.
The Ringleader case is now used as teaching material in continuing legal education. It is included in the American Inns of Court December 2014 program, Selected Materials on Cyber Security (Part I), a CLE curriculum used by federal judges, magistrate judges, and practicing trial lawyers. The class action sits in the broader academic discussion of digital-privacy doctrine, including The Conversation, “The legal implications of digital privacy”.
Levine et al. v. Google, Inc., No. 4:11-cv-02157 (N.D. Cal.), filed May 2, 2011. A federal class-action privacy lawsuit I organized and filed on behalf of two named family member plaintiffs against Google, Inc. and related defendants in the Northern District of California. The case sat in the same wave of consumer-privacy class actions that produced settlements and behavioral changes from the largest internet platforms during the 2011 to 2014 period. Filing the case in family members' names rather than my own was deliberate: privacy abuses against ordinary users, including older adults and family members who were not technology professionals, were the harm the case was built around.
The lawsuit, together with the Ringleader matter, reflects a consistent thread — a willingness to use the federal courts on the consumer side against very large counterparties when covert tracking, device-identifier respawning, or other privacy violations harm ordinary people, including minors and family members who never consented to the collection.
Reference: GovInfo — USCOURTS-cand-4_11-cv-02157.
Hillman et al. v. Dallas Central Appraisal District, No. DC-22-12159 (Dallas County, Texas). A civil property tax appeal I filed as plaintiff in 2022, contesting the Dallas Central Appraisal District valuation of a property I own. Routine and proper exercise of a Texas property owner's statutory right of appeal under the Texas Tax Code. Public docket: Trellis.law — DC-22-12159.
Other federal civil matters — Third-party motion practice.
Millennium Laboratories Inc v. Aegis Sciences Corporation, No. 3:11-mc-00151 (N.D. Tex., filed Dec. 28, 2011), Presiding Judge Sam A. Lindsay, Magistrate Judge Renee Harris Toliver. An ancillary miscellaneous proceeding in the Northern District of Texas tied to subpoenas issued in the underlying patent and lab-services litigation pending in the Southern District of California (Case No. 11-cv-02399). I appeared as a non-party movant alongside Jeffrey Wasserman, both represented by counsel Pascual Covarrubias. Listing is included here for completeness of the federal civil record. Docket: Justia — 3:2011mc00151.
Political Contributions on the Public Record
Political contributions, bipartisan, all on file.
Bipartisan, on file
Political contributions are a matter of public record under federal and Texas state campaign finance disclosure law. Personal contributions are searchable at the Federal Election Commission, OpenSecrets, FollowTheMoney (National Institute on Money in Politics), and the Texas Ethics Commission. All contributions on file under my name across both state and federal databases are listed below in chronological order. Many of these contributions are connected with the lobby work my businesses participated in across Texas state legislative committees during the 2000 through 2004 period.
| Date | Recipient | Party / Level | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-02-09 | Juan F. Solis III | D (TX) | $500 |
| 2000-02-10 | Leo Alvarado Jr. | D (TX) | $500 |
| 2000-07-27 | Helen Giddings | D (TX) | $1,000 |
| 2000-10-10 | Steven D. Wolens | D (TX) | $1,000 |
| 2001-11-15 | Kirk P. Watson | D (TX) | $250 |
| 2002-02-26 | Dan Morales | D (TX) | $5,000 |
| 2002-03-08 | Gonzalo Barrientos | D (TX) | $1,000 |
| 2002-05-15 | Juan (Chuy) Hinojosa | D (TX) | $1,000 |
| 2002-06-03 | David Bernsen | D (TX) | $1,000 |
| 2002-07-06 | David Bernsen | D (TX) | $3,000 |
| 2002-09-03 | Kirk P. Watson | D (TX) | $1,000 |
| 2002-10-25 | Kirk P. Watson | D (TX) | $7,000 |
| 2003-07-08 | Kevin Bailey | D (TX) | $500 |
| 2003-07-08 | Jose Antonio Menendez | D (TX) | $500 |
| 2003-07-10 | Juan (Chuy) Hinojosa | D (TX) | $1,000 |
| 2003-07-10 | Ruth Jones McClendon | D (TX) | $1,000 |
| 2004-01-15 | Bill Zedler | R (TX) | $500 |
| 2004-03-17 | Helen Giddings | D (TX) | $750 |
| 2004-07-15 | Trey Martinez Fischer III | D (TX) | $250 |
| 2004-10-21 | Katy Hubener | D (TX) | $400 |
| 2007-12-12 | Hillary Clinton (President) | D (Federal) | $2,300 |
| 2012-03-29 | Thomas C. Leppert (US Senate) | R (Federal) | $1,000 |
| 2015-04-02 | RickPAC | R (Federal PAC) | $2,500 |
| Date unavailable | Ron Walenta | R (TX) | $1,000 |
| Total (24 contributions, 2000-2015) | $33,950 | ||
Profile. Bipartisan giving, 2000 through 2015. Predominantly Texas state legislative candidates (2000-2004 period tied to healthcare-policy lobby work my businesses participated in), with three federal-level contributions thereafter (Hillary Clinton 2007 presidential, Thomas C. Leppert 2012 US Senate, RickPAC 2015). Contribution sizes are consistent with a Texas small-business operator participating in state legislative civic life. None of these contributions appear in any campaign-finance enforcement matter against me individually. Note: the Ron Walenta contribution date is shown as “unavailable” because the underlying source database returned a placeholder date.
Verification. Each contribution is searchable in the public databases. Primary lookup tools: OpenSecrets — donor lookup for Andrew Hillman, FollowTheMoney.org (National Institute on Money in Politics), the Texas Ethics Commission, and the Federal Election Commission.
Background & Roots
Three generations in Dallas.
I was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, the youngest of three children. Today I have a delightful family of my own. I grew up in my family's auto-parts business, Midway Auto Supply, founded in Dallas in 1959 by my grandfather Henry B. Levine. The work ethic, customer-service standards, and operating instincts I picked up on that shop floor stayed with me through every venture afterward. My grandmother Fannie Bella Levine threw a ceremonial first pitch at old Arlington Stadium for the Texas Rangers. My mother Beverly grew up in that household and raised me in it.
School years in Dallas. I attended M.B. Henderson Elementary School in Dallas, then 
W.E. Greiner Middle School in Oak Cliff, Texas. For high school I went to several Dallas-area schools, including the 
Judge Barefoot Sanders Law Magnet in downtown Dallas (a 
Dallas Independent School District magnet program named for the late U.S. District Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders Jr.), 
W.T. White High School in north Dallas, and finished at 
Highland Park High School in University Park, Texas.
For higher education, I attended Dallas College, the Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business, and Harvard University. My working life has been spent within thirty miles of where I went to school. For a stretch of years I also kept a part-time residence in Dorado, Puerto Rico, but Dallas has always been home.
Family and community in Dallas.
The Andrew Hillman Family Room at the Lamplighter School. A $300,000 gift from the Hillman family established the Andrew Hillman Family Room at the Lamplighter School in Dallas, a dedicated educational facility supporting robotics instruction and other specialized learning programs integrated into the school's daily curriculum. The Andrew Hillman Family Room sits inside the broader Lamplighter Innovation Lab campus master plan designed by Marlon Blackwell Architects, the recipient of the 2020 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal. Named facilities on the Lamplighter campus include the Eastin Family Innovation Lab (STEM and maker education), the Erik Jonsson Media Center (library and literacy), the Connelly Family Theater Arts Lab (drama and performing arts), the Junkins Family Chicken Coop (outdoor learning), and the Andrew Hillman Family Room (robotics and specialized learning).
The Lamplighter Innovation Lab partnership was the subject of a formal academic case study by the Southern Methodist University Lyle School of Engineering Maker Education Project, titled A Transformative Partnership: How Lamplighter School Used Maker Education and Design Thinking to Challenge Itself at a Pivotal Moment in Its History. The case study documents the multi-year SMU-Lamplighter collaboration that produced the 10,000 square foot Innovation Lab in which the Andrew Hillman Family Room is housed.
Decades of underwriting and volunteer chair work. The Hillman family has been on the public civic record in Dallas for many years before the federal case I pled to. A member of the Hillman family served as Auction Underwriting Chair and as a Co-Chair of the 2014–2015 Lamplighter School Celebration of Innovation Auction, and as a co-chair of the Backyard BBQ Homecoming Social on November 8, 2014. That co-chair role is on the public record in the official Lamplighter eNews of December 9, 2014. The Hillman Family was named in the official 2014 Lamplighter eNews among the school's "Over the Top Underwriters" at the $2,500 to $10,000 underwriting tier, listed alongside the Paulos Foundation, Bank of Texas, and other civic anchors of the Dallas community. The family also co-underwrote the Cary Pierce (Jackopierce) performance at the same auction social.
The Lamplighter School, founded in 1953 on Inwood Road, is one of the most prominent independent pre-kindergarten through fourth grade schools in Dallas. Primary source: Lamplighter School eNews, October 28, 2014.
Parish Episcopal School in Dallas. The Hillman family is recognized at Parish Episcopal School in Dallas, an independent Episcopal pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade school. A reserved parking space at the school is designated for the Hillman Family, reflecting ongoing family involvement and support of the school community. Giving back always matters.
The federal matter, on the record. Numbers, not narrative.
The matter from 2018 resolved through the federal system. What follows is the count, the record, and the work since. No commentary on the system itself. The reader draws their own conclusion.
Primary source documents covering the original matter are available in the sections below. Court filings, sentencing materials, and the public record are presented as filed. Readers who want context beyond the document trail can read the operating record at andrew-hillman.com.
The Federal Case
United States v. Beauchamp et al.
Citation. United States v. Beauchamp et al., No. 3:16-CR-0516-D (N.D. Tex.). Indictment returned by the grand jury on November 16, 2016 and unsealed on the government's motion of December 1, 2016. Twenty-one defendants named.
The work that was at issue. The prosecution covered conduct connected to two facilities, Forest Park Medical Center and NextHealth. I never owned, controlled, or was employed by Forest Park Medical Center or any of its hospitals. My company, Hospital Business Concepts, did consulting work for hospitals — restructuring projects and physician recruitment. We worked with Vista Hospital of Dallas (publicly traded on Nasdaq as DYII) on a HIH project and on bringing local talent to Garland for elective spine, pain, and weight-loss surgery. We also worked on the turnaround of a former HealthSouth facility in San Antonio that became Inova / Victory Healthcare, a business I did own part of and helped grow into a network of public and private hospitals built around quality and ethics.
Forest Park's owners were physicians who were having trouble attracting other doctors. Our paid work for them, physician introductions, was a small piece of the consulting business and we did not consider it a long active engagement. The government's theory alleged a conspiracy window running from early 2008 through January 2013, and the plea reflects conduct within that window.
NextHealth. The government alleged that money I earned from Forest Park was used to start NextHealth, which had been operating for years. Before the conduct that led to the prosecution, I had terminated and separated from the partners and employees of the prior business, and the company was renamed to put distance from their overt acts. After the government's cooperation with those individuals, they were indicted in two separate cases in the Northern District of Texas. That history was part of what the Forest Park plea covered.
The 2005 indictment, dismissed. Years earlier, the government had brought United States v. Hillman, No. 3:05-cr-00202 (N.D. Tex.), in which I was named as a defendant along with a co-defendant and Alpha Treatment Centers, Inc. Alpha Treatment Centers pled guilty to one conspiracy count and was sentenced in January 2008 to one year of probation and one hundred thousand dollars in restitution; the Fifth Circuit affirmed in December 2008. The charges against me personally were dismissed on the government's own unopposed motion on September 21, 2006.
Voluntary disclosure. Before charges in the Forest Park matter, I voluntarily reported what I knew about Forest Park to the former U.S. Attorney in my district, with my personal lawyer present. That voluntary disclosure was later used against me by the government, and the lawyer who sat with me at the meeting did not, in my view, handle the conflict the way he should have once another of his clients was implicated by what I reported.
The numbers on the government's chart. The conspiracy chart in this case showed one hundred fifty thousand dollars and forty thousand dollars in payments to the Hillman / Narosov consulting company during the alleged window. Those are the gross figures on the government's own chart; net to me personally after staff, commissions, and overhead was substantially less. For context, the Forest Park indictment named twenty-one defendants and alleged a two-hundred-million-dollar scheme with approximately forty million dollars in kickbacks. The hospital owners, managers, and highest-paid surgeons drew the long sentences. I pled guilty, I do not minimize what I did, and the dollar figures are simply on the record.
Plea. Pled guilty in October 2018 to conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to pay and receive healthcare bribes, both connected to the Forest Park Medical Center and NextHealth matters.
Cooperation. Following the plea I cooperated extensively with federal investigators. The sentencing court weighed the cooperation in imposing a sentence well below the fifteen-year statutory maximum on the underlying charges. The cooperation contributed to additional criminal cases brought in the Northern District of Texas.
Sentence and restitution. Sentenced in December 2019 to sixty-six months in federal custody and three million dollars in restitution. All restitution paid in full. BOP register number 33631-177. Self-surrendered to the FBI Dallas field office at One Justice Way. First taken into federal custody on July 19, 2018 in connection with a separate medical-cannabis matter (since dismissed) and served twenty-three months and three weeks in continuous custody through sentencing. Initial state detention on federal hold at the Mansfield Detention Center, Dallas County Jail, and Fannin County Detention Center, followed by over one year at the Seagoville Federal Detention Center, then five months at the Federal Prison Camp Texarkana, a minimum-security satellite camp. Nearly one month of that time was spent in the Special Housing Unit at FCI Texarkana related to FBOP COVID protocols immediately before transition to home confinement under the CARES Act. Final release from BOP custody on or before May 11, 2022 per the BOP inmate locator. Supervised release was terminated early. No probation. No continuing criminal conditions.
Related civil actions, all resolved without judgment against me. Primary records: CourtListener — U.S. ex rel. v. U.S. Health Group, Inc. ·
Justia — UnitedHealthcare v. Next Health dismissal (Doc. 738).
United States ex rel. Unnamed Relators v. U.S. Health Group, Inc., et al., No. 3:13-CV-0701-P (N.D. Tex.), FCA qui tam filed 2013, Government Notice of Declination filed December 12, 2014 under 31 U.S.C. § 3730(b)(4)(B), resolved without judgment. United Health Care Services, Inc. and UnitedHealthcare Insurance Company v. Next Health, LLC, et al., No. 3:17-cv-00243-E-BT (N.D. Tex.), settled, plaintiffs dismissed me on August 18, 2020 under Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(a)(1)(A)(i). United States ex rel. Proctor v. Next Health LLC et al., No. 4:17-cv-00169 (E.D. Tex.), I was dismissed prior to conclusion; the case terminated March 6, 2026 with a default judgment of approximately four hundred forty-eight point five million dollars entered against Next Health, LLC as the corporate entity.
Separate medical-cannabis indictment, dismissed. United States v. Hillman, Narosov, and Waldvogel, No. 3:18-cr-00401 (N.D. Tex.). Background: I owned Valley Herbal Healing Center, a licensed medical-cannabis dispensary in Los Angeles, which I later sold to its employees on owner financing — a sale I never collected on. The government alleged the dispensary's product was being shipped to Dallas. Originating from sealed complaint No. 3:18-mj-00491 filed July 17, 2018; arrest warrant executed July 19, 2018; initial appearance July 20, 2018; probable cause and detention ordered July 24, 2018; Waldvogel added July 27, 2018; indictment filed August 7, 2018 (one count); Not Guilty plea at arraignment August 15, 2018; case assigned to Judge Karen Gren Scholer. The court dismissed the indictment as to Mr. Narosov and me on April 18, 2019 on the government's own motion. I never entered a guilty plea in this case.
Authoritative primary sources. GovInfo — USCOURTS-txnd-3_16-cr-00516 (primary federal record for the Beauchamp Forest Park case).
GovInfo — USCOURTS-txed-1_17-cv-00048 (E.D. Tex.). The Beauchamp multi-defendant docket at
CourtListener — United States v. Beauchamp et al., No. 3:16-CR-0516-D. The 2005 dismissed federal case against me individually at
CourtListener — United States v. Hillman, No. 3:05-cr-00202. The 2018 dismissed medical-cannabis case at
CourtListener — United States v. Hillman, Narosov, and Waldvogel, No. 3:18-cr-00401. Office of the U.S. Attorney, Northern District of Texas at
justice.gov/usao-ndtx. Sentencing press release:
Dallas Healthcare Exec Sentenced to 66 Months. Combined Forest Park sentencing summary:
14 Defendants Sentenced to Over 74 Years.
DOJ U.S. Attorney W.D. Tex. — Forest Park Medical Center $215,000 kickback resolution.
Independent secondary source coverage. D Magazine — Healthcare Exec Sentenced to 66 Months (January 2020). D Magazine — Forest Park Defendants Sentenced to a Combined 74 Years (March 2021). People Newspapers — Preston Hollow Man Sentenced (December 2019). Insurance Journal — Final Defendants Sentenced (March 2021). Dark Daily — Dallas Healthcare Executive Sentenced. The Dallas Morning News. Wall Street Journal — Forest Park coverage (September 2015). Dallas Business Journal — Lawsuit: Forest Park leaders hid Dallas hospitals (December 2015). Fierce Healthcare — Physician-owned hospital chain struggles closures. HHS-OIG — Physician-owned hospital civil and criminal liability resolution (official enforcement action). Holland & Knight — Hospitals, Doctors, and Others Beware: DOJ May Apply the Travel Act (April 2019). Connect CRE — After Troubles, Shuttered Dallas Hospital to Re-Open. Physicians Practice — Lessons from the Forest Park Case and the Revitalization of the Travel Act. San Antonio Express-News — Forest Park hospital’s closing sparks suit. Wall Street Journal — Forest Park follow-up coverage (May 2016). D CEO — The Shocking Collapse of Forest Park Medical Center (November 2015). OpenSanctions — entity record. PitchBook — Healthvest Holdings (Dallas, TX, founded 2012). Texas Tribune — More Forest Park Hospitals File Bankruptcy (December 2015). Becker’s Hospital Review — Shuttered Dallas Hospital Hit with Lawsuit Over Unpaid Wages. Southlake Style — Forest Park Medical Center Southlake Named Among 20 Beautiful Hospitals in America.
Disposition and current status. Restitution: paid in full. Sentence: served in full, twenty-three months and three weeks in continuous federal custody. Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator: register number 33631-177 at bop.gov/inmateloc/. Released on or before May 11, 2022. Supervised release: terminated early. Probation: none. Continuing criminal conditions: none. Nothing pending in any court.
Plea
Guilty
October 2018
Sentence
66 months
December 2019
Restitution
$3 million
All paid in full
The complete government record.
Across two decades the federal government brought or filed multiple actions naming me. Setting them out in full here, with outcomes, because the complete record is more useful than any portion of it. Each citation is verifiable on the public docket.
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2005
United States v. Hillman
No. 3:05-cr-00202 (N.D. Tex.)Charges dismissed.
Charges against Andrew Hillman dismissed on the government's own unopposed motion on September 21, 2006. The co-defendant entity, Alpha Treatment Centers, Inc., pled guilty to one count and was sentenced to one year probation and one hundred thousand dollars in restitution, affirmed by the Fifth Circuit in December 2008.
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2013
U.S. ex rel. Unnamed Relators v. U.S. Health Group
No. 3:13-CV-0701-P (N.D. Tex.)Government declined to intervene.
False Claims Act qui tam filed under seal in 2013. The United States filed its Notice of Declination on December 12, 2014 under 31 U.S.C. § 3730(b)(4)(B). Resolved without judgment against me.
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2016
United States v. Beauchamp et al.
No. 3:16-CR-0516-D (N.D. Tex.)Guilty plea with substantial cooperation.
The Forest Park matter. Pled guilty October 2018. Sentenced December 2019 to 66 months and three million dollars in restitution. Cooperated extensively with federal investigators. Released 2020. All restitution paid in full.
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2017
UnitedHealthcare v. Next Health
No. 3:17-cv-00243-E-BT (N.D. Tex.)Settled. Dismissed without judgment.
Plaintiffs dismissed me August 18, 2020 under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1)(A)(i). No judgment against me individually.
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2018
United States v. Hillman
No. 3:18-cr-00401 (N.D. Tex.)Indictment dismissed.
Separate matter. Dismissed on the government's own motion on April 18, 2019.
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2017
U.S. ex rel. Proctor v. Next Health
No. 4:17-cv-00169 (E.D. Tex.)Dismissed before judgment.
I was dismissed from the case prior to its conclusion. The case terminated March 6, 2026 with a default judgment against Next Health, LLC as the corporate entity. No judgment against me individually.
The Forest Park plea is the matter that produced the federal sentence I served. I do not minimize it. The complete record is presented so anyone evaluating me sees what the government did across two decades, in full.
- 2005United States v. Hillman, No. 3:05-cr-00202 (N.D. Tex.). Indicted with Alpha Treatment Centers, Inc. and a co-defendant.
- 2006September 21, 2006: charges against me personally dismissed on the government's own unopposed motion. Alpha Treatment Centers later pled guilty (January 2008, one year probation, $100,000 restitution; affirmed Fifth Circuit December 2008).
- 2010Filed Hillman v. Ringleader Digital, Inc., No. 1:10-cv-08315 (S.D.N.Y., J. Cote) as named class representative on HTML5 device-identifier respawning, including children's online privacy. Class-wide settlement approved on industry-side privacy reform and class compensation.
- 2011May 2, 2011: Filed Levine et al. v. Google, Inc., No. 4:11-cv-02157 (N.D. Cal.) on behalf of two named family-member plaintiffs — consumer-side privacy class action against a Big Tech defendant.
- 2013U.S. ex rel. Unnamed Relators v. U.S. Health Group, Inc., No. 3:13-CV-0701-P (N.D. Tex.). FCA qui tam filed under seal.
- 2014December 12, 2014: United States files Notice of Declination. Matter resolved without judgment against me.
- 2016November 16, 2016: Forest Park grand jury returns indictment under seal, No. 3:16-CR-0516-D (N.D. Tex.). December 1, 2016: government's motion to unseal granted. Twenty-one defendants named.
- 2017UnitedHealthcare files No. 3:17-cv-00243-E-BT (N.D. Tex.). Proctor qui tam, No. 4:17-cv-00169 (E.D. Tex.), also filed this year.
- 2018July 17: federal cannabis complaint sealed (No. 3:18-mj-00491). July 19: arrest warrant executed; taken into custody. July 20: initial appearance (Mag. J. Toliver). July 24: probable cause and detention (Mag. J. Horan). August 7: cannabis indictment filed (No. 3:18-cr-00401). August 15: Not Guilty plea at arraignment (J. Scholer). October 2018: pled guilty in the Forest Park case.
- 2019April 18: cannabis indictment dismissed on government's motion as to Narosov and me (J. Scholer). December 2019: sentenced in Forest Park case, sixty-six months federal plus $3 million restitution.
- 2020Custody chronology: Dallas County Jail, Mansfield Detention Center, and Fannin County Detention Center (state custody on federal hold), Seagoville FDC, FPC Texarkana satellite camp, then SHU at FCI Texarkana related to FBOP COVID protocols, then home confinement under the CARES Act. July 20: OIG places me on the LEIE under §1128(a)(3). August 18: UnitedHealthcare settles and dismisses me under Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(a)(1)(A)(i). Scholarship and Grant launched on release, funded from personal savings.
- 2022On or before May 11, 2022: released from BOP custody per BOP inmate locator. Fully discharged — supervised release terminated early, no probation, no continuing conditions.
- 2025July 20: OIG LEIE five-year statutory minimum expires. Reinstatement application eligibility begins; application intended.
- 2026March 6: Proctor qui tam terminated with default judgment of approximately $448.5 million against Next Health, LLC as entity (I was previously dismissed). Site of record consolidated.
Current status: every criminal and civil case listed above has been settled, dismissed, dropped, or fully served. Nothing is pending in court. All restitution paid in full. One continuing federal administrative consequence remains — the OIG LEIE healthcare-program exclusion noted in the disclosures.
- April 2024 Andrew Hillman of Dallas Announces Scholarship for Entrepreneurs PR Newswire
- June 2024 Andrew Hillman of Dallas Launches Scholarship for Entrepreneurs Yahoo Finance
- March 2025 Andrew Hillman of Dallas Launches Scholarship to Propel Undergraduate Talent Nationwide GlobeNewswire
- Feb 2026 Andrew Hillman Announces Andrew Hillman Grant for Biotech Yahoo Finance
- Feb 2026 Andrew Hillman Launches National Grant Program to Advance Innovation and Leadership in Biotechnology Education Shelby Star
- Apr 2026 Andrew Hillman Announces Andrew Hillman Grant for Biotech to Inspire the Next Generation of Innovators GlobeNewswire
- 2026 Andrew Hillman Grant for Biotech Opens Yahoo Finance — Healthcare
- 2024 Andrew Hillman Scholarship Opens Doors Yahoo Finance
- 2026 Andrew Hillman Grant Opens 2026 Biotech Application Cycle in Dallas National Law Review
- 2026 Andrew Hillman, A Persuasive Business, Financial Backer and Fellow Benefactor in Dallas IssueWire
- 2026 Andrew Hillman, A Dallas-Based Entrepreneur Is Helping Businesses Raise Revenue and Lower Costs OpenPR
- Jan 2026 Andrew Hillman Introduces Biotech Innovation Grant for Undergraduate Students The Manila Times (via GlobeNewswire)
- 2026 Andrew Hillman Dallas: A Motivational Business Investor Vocal Media — Education
- 2026 Andrew Hillman: The Business Investor and Co-Founder Vocal Media — Education
- 2026 Dallas-Based Andrew Hillman Launches National Initiative Yahoo Finance
- 2026 Andrew Hillman Announces Nationwide Scholarship Yahoo Finance
- 2026 Andrew Hillman of Dallas, Texas Announces Yahoo Finance
- Sep 2025 Andrew Hillman Scholarship Opens Doors for Entrepreneurial Students Nationwide GlobeNewswire
- Feb 2026 Andrew Hillman Announces the Andrew Hillman Grant for Biotech GlobeNewswire
- 2026 Andrew Hillman Launches National Grant Program in Biotechnology Education El Paso Times
- 2026 Andrew Hillman Launches National Grant Program in Biotechnology Education Cincinnati Enquirer
- 2026 Andrew Hillman Launches National Grant Program in Biotechnology Education The Daily Record
- 2026 Andrew Hillman Grant Opens 2026 Biotech Application Cycle in Dallas Killeen Daily Herald
- 2026 Ignite Your Innovation: The Andrew Hillman Grant for Biotech Opens Doors for Future Leaders 24-7 Press Release
- 2026 Andrew Hillman Launches National Grant Program in Biotechnology Education Knox News
- April 2024 A Dallas-Based Entrepreneur Is Helping Businesses Raise Revenue, Boost Efficiency, Lower Costs Barchart
Audio coverage & podcast appearances.
- Oct 10, 2025 Opportunity Alert: Andrew Hillman Grant for Biotech & Lifordi Immunotherapeutics' Breakthrough ADC LFD-200 at ACR Convergence 2025 Apple Podcasts — NewsRamp Science, Exploration and Discovery
- 2025 Factors Influencing Small Business Growth — Andrew Hillman Dallas SoundCloud — andrew_hillman
- 2025 Andrew Hillman Dallas: A Leader in Business Investing and Co-founder SoundCloud
Earlier coverage — privacy litigation.
- Sept 16, 2010 Lawsuit Targets Mobile Advertiser Over Sneaky HTML5 Pseudo-Cookies Wired
- Sept 2010 Ringleader Digital responds to pending lawsuit Marketing Dive (Mobile Marketer)
- Sept 17, 2010 Ringleader Digital's Use of HTML5 Databases on Mobile Devices Leads to Class Action Lawsuit Privacy.org / EPIC
- Nov 11, 2011 What Went Wrong at Ringleader Digital? Digiday
- June 2013 Ringleader Proposed Settlement (PDF, primary document) Inside Privacy — Covington & Burling
Academic & professional citation.
- Dec 2014 Selected Materials on Cyber Security, Part I — CLE program for federal judges and trial lawyers American Inns of Court
- 2018 The legal implications of digital privacy The Conversation (academic journalism)
Canonical Sites
Programs
Professional Profiles
Social
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Crunchbase
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SoundCloud
SlideServe
Google Sites
AVIXA xChange
- about.me
- Stage 32
- Flickr
Audio
Writing
- The Hillman Letter — Substack
- Medium — andrewjhillman
- Medium — andrewhillmandallastexas
- Networking Gold: The Currency of Connection
- From Dallas to Dismayed: Why Our Jail System Needs an Overhaul
- Collaboration in Biotech: Fostering Partnerships for Greater Impact
- Reddit r/Entrepreneurs: The first thing I did the day I came home
- Reddit r/biotech: Grant pitch from a 30-year operator
- Issuu — andrew-hillman
- BubbleLife — Uptown Dallas community profile
- WordPress blog — andrewhillmandallasblog
- Ashton Hillman gives back through golf synergistic team (2021)
- Issuu publication — Hillman Andrew, Andrew Hillman Dallas
- Scribd document — Andrew Hillman Dallas record
