Thread: Business owner sentenced for Medicare Fraud

Department of Justice Press Release

For Immediate Release
March 2, 2010 United States Attorney's Office
Southern District of Florida
Contact: (305) 961-9000

Owner of Hialeah Health Care Facilities Sentenced to 112 Months for Threatening Investigators and Defrauding Medicare

Jeffrey H. Sloman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office; and Christopher B. Dennis, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, announced today’s sentencing of defendant Yamill Ramos Perez, 38, of Miami-Dade County, for health care fraud charges and harassing Medicare investigators. U.S. District Court Judge Patricia A. Seitz sentenced Ramos Perez to 112 months’ imprisonment for health care fraud and 60 months’ imprisonment for interstate harassment. The sentences are to run concurrent to each other, followed by a three-year term of supervised release. In addition, Judge Seitz ordered restitution in the amount of $5,825,702 and ordered forfeiture of the defendant’s assets.

According to court documents, Ramos Perez owned, through intermediaries, two health care clinics: El Palenque Farmacia Corp. and Meli Pharmacy, both located in Hialeah, Florida. Ramos Perez admitted that the two clinics fraudulently billed Medicare approximately $20,000,000, and received approximately $6,000,000 in fraudulent reimbursements.

After both clinics were placed on “pre-payment reviewâ€

The Cubans are notorious for these crimes. There were 35 of them wanted by the Marshall's and if I recall correctly only 2 were non Cuban. The Cubans who came here before the 80's despise those who commit these crimes as they are the ones who came here from the Mariel Boatlift and after that. This is why many people in Miami are screaming to end the wetfoot dryfoot policy.