Dr. Daniel Pompa, a former Pennsylvania chiropractor who now runs the Utah-based health coaching company Pompa Program LLC, has been tied to two significant legal matters: a 2012 guilty plea for stealing more than $1.4 million from a trust fund set up for two orphaned children he and his wife had adopted, and a 2025 wage-and-hour class action filed against his company by former workers in California. The Dr. Pompa lawsuit drawing current attention is the labor case, though the older criminal conviction cost him his chiropractic license and continues to shape how he is described publicly.
The 2025 Labor Class Action Against Pompa Program LLC
On April 16, 2025, two former workers, Felicia Connors and Haley Rice, filed a class action against Pompa Program LLC in Orange County Superior Court in California. The complaint alleges wage and labor violations under both the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and California state labor law.1Best Lawyers in United States. Dr Pompa Lawsuit
The case was removed to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in July 2025 and assigned case number 8:25-cv-01493. On July 28, 2025, Judge Autumn D. Spaeth dismissed the federal FLSA claims without prejudice and remanded the case to California state court. The remaining California labor claims remain active in Orange County Superior Court as of the most recent available information.1Best Lawyers in United States. Dr Pompa Lawsuit
The suit’s core allegations track complaints that former workers have posted on job-rating sites: that Pompa Program classified its health coaches as 1099 independent contractors, provided no benefits, equipment, or tax withholding, and paid them under a compensation model heavily weighted toward sales performance, while exercising the kind of control over schedules and work more typical of an employer relationship.
The 2012 Trust Fund Theft Conviction
In 2003, a murder-suicide in Florida left seven-year-old twins Dylan and Olivia Young orphaned after their father killed their mother and then himself.2CBS News Pittsburgh. Couple Pleads Guilty to Stealing From Children’s Trust Fund A trust fund of roughly $1.4 million was established for the children. Merily Pompa, a cousin of the children’s late mother, and her husband Daniel Pompa took custody of the twins and later adopted them, moving the family to the Pittsburgh area.3UPI. Couple Allegedly Milked Orphans’ Trust
A 95-page criminal complaint filed in Allegheny County in October 2010 alleged that the couple pulled at least $15,000 a month from the trusts over roughly seven years to fund what investigators called a “lavish lifestyle,” including a home in Cranberry Township worth roughly $1 million and $458,000 in renovations to a condominium at the Seven Springs resort. By the time the case opened, only about $88,790 remained of the original fund, with an additional $248,853 recovered from investment accounts the couple had set up using trust money.4Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Adoptive Parents Accused of Stealing Inheritance
On June 13, 2012, Daniel and Merily Pompa each pleaded guilty to eight counts of misapplication of entrusted funds before Judge Kevin Sasinoski in Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas.5Patch. Couple Pleads Guilty to Stealing $1.4 Million From Orphans Each was sentenced to 16 years of probation and ordered to pay $1,463,052 in restitution.6WTAE Pittsburgh. Cranberry Couple Sentenced for Misusing Adopted Kids’ Trust Fund
Loss of Chiropractic License
On May 7, 2013, the Pennsylvania State Board of Chiropractic suspended Daniel Pompa’s license for five years, finding that his guilty plea constituted “immoral or unprofessional conduct by means of an act involving moral turpitude, dishonesty or corruption” under the Chiropractic Practice Act. Under a consent agreement, the first two years were an active suspension and the remaining three years were stayed in favor of probation conditioned on compliance with the law and his restitution obligations.7Lyme Science. Daniel Pompa Chiropractic License Suspension Consent Agreement
Pompa petitioned the Board for reinstatement in January 2020. After a July 2020 hearing, the Board granted the petition on October 13, 2020, but placed the license in “expired” status rather than restoring it to active practice. Reactivating it would require passing oral, practical, and written chiropractic examinations, completing 24 hours of continuing education, providing proof of professional liability insurance, and paying reactivation fees. Board records indicate Pompa has not practiced chiropractic since 2013.8Lyme Science. Daniel Pompa Chiropractic License Reinstatement to Expired Status
What Pompa Does Now
After the suspension, Pompa relocated to Park City, Utah, and built Pompa Program LLC around what he calls “cellular healing” and detoxification. The company promotes dietary and detox protocols he says address health problems at the cellular level, targeting conditions ranging from chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia to diabetes and autism.9Dr. Pompa. Cellular Healing Diet Pompa Program describes itself as a “faith-based, mission-driven organization” and hires health coaches remotely under a pay structure that combines base pay with performance-based incentives.10Pompa Program (Breezy). Health Coach Job Listing That coaching workforce is the group whose classification is now at the center of the pending California lawsuit.