Speaking
Mashiyat Rashid Speaks
"I had a hundred and fifty million dollars and it still wasn't enough. Nobody told me no, and I wasn't looking for anybody who would."
Former health care CEO and author of Medicine Mafia Inc.: How I Built It, Then Lost It. Mashiyat speaks at legal conferences, at business schools, and to student athletes, as a keynote speaker or as a secondary presenter on panels and in breakout sessions.
Stated plainly, before you ask
Mashiyat Rashid pleaded guilty to health care fraud in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. He was sentenced to 15 years, served 8.5, and owes $51 million in restitution. He is permanently excluded from all federal health care programs. None of this is hidden, minimized or worked around. It is the reason he is worth putting in front of your audience.
01 · Legal conferences
The Impossible Day: Inside a $150 Million Health Care Fraud
A first-person account of a fraud that passed every inspection for a decade. Mashiyat walks through his own case from the defendant's chair: documentation that was immaculate and false, warnings that went unread, the "Impossible Day" in the billing data that finally exposed it, and what willful blindness looks like from the inside. For attorneys, compliance professionals, investigators and white-collar defense audiences.
02 · Business schools
Building vs. Extracting: Where Ambition Crosses the Line
From the Cass Corridor to a nine-figure health care company, then to federal prison. Mashiyat shows future founders and executives how a business can work exactly as designed and still be a crime: incentives that reward volume, the "industry standard" excuse, and why every leadership team needs someone who is paid to say no. For MBA, undergraduate business and entrepreneurship programs.
03 · Student athletes
Sudden Money: Keeping Score and Why Enough Never Arrives
Revenue sharing means athletes are receiving real money, often for the first time, before anyone has taught them what money does to a young person who has never had it. Mashiyat was in his twenties when the cars, the house and the watches started. The money was a scoreboard, and a number that holds still is a number that is losing. He also sat on the other side of the table, building deals that made other people rich before they understood what they had signed, so he can show athletes how an offer is engineered to feel like an opportunity. For athletic departments, teams and life-skills programs.
Keynote
45–60 minutes for a full conference, class or all-athlete assembly, followed by Q&A.
Secondary presenter
20–30 minutes on a panel, in a breakout session or alongside another speaker.
Workshop or team session
60–90 minutes with a smaller group, built around open Q&A. For athletes, "How a Bad Deal Is Built" walks through the anatomy of an offer designed to look like a gift.
Preseason slot
Designed to sit inside the compliance and life-skills programming you already schedule.
What he will not do
- Give financial, legal or investment advice. He is not licensed and will not pretend to be.
- Review or comment on anyone's actual contracts, offers or representation.
- Sell anything to your audience, their families or your institution.
- Speak about anyone's conduct but his own. That is the whole discipline.
Booking and pricing
Fees depend on the event, the format and travel. Call or email for pricing and availability. Based in metropolitan Detroit and available in person throughout Michigan.