Attorney General Pam Bondi 's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and the Cocoa Police Department today announced the arrests of three Brevard County residents , Bobby Lyons , Valerie Jackson and Kwanya Sanders . According to the investigation , the defendants participated in a scheme to defraud Florida Medicaid out more than $ 100,000 using children 's information . The defendants allegedly gave children fake mental health diagnosis as a pretext for billing Medicaid for mental health services that the children never received and their parents never authorized . Jackson and Sanders , owners of Changes Youth and Family Services , Inc. , a Florida Medicaid provider in Melbourne , entered into a business partnership with Lyons , who ran a mentoring program through Orange County Schools . As part of the agreement , Lyons provided Changes with a list of students and the students ' Medicaid identification to allow Changes to bill for services rendered by Lyons . Lyons provided the names and information of 94 children to Jackson and Sanders , who paid Lyons $ 2,500 . According to the investigation , Lyons never provided any of the billed services and did not have parental consent or the required documents for Medicaid billing . Even after realizing Lyons ' fraud , Jackson and Sanders did not notify authorities or attempt to return the funds of more than $ 100,000 received illegally from Medicaid for services never rendered . The investigation revealed that Lyons only mentored students and did not provide any actual psychosocial counseling for the fraudulent diagnoses of serious mental health issues . ;