A federal grand jury in Miami returned an indictment Thursday charging a Key Largo man with submitting approximately $42 million in fraudulent health care claims to United Healthcare.
According to allegations in the indictment, from April 2013 to March 2017, Bradley Jason Kantor, 49, owned and operated Mobile Diagnostic Imaging Inc., a purported medical clinic in Davie, Florida that provided antigen therapy and other allergen immunotherapy services, such as allergy testing and allergy shots, to commercial insurance beneficiaries, according to the U.S. Attorney Office.
It is alleged that Kantor offered and paid kickbacks to co-conspirators to induce them to refer beneficiaries to MDI, so that MDI could bill commercial insurers for services that it never provided, according to the U.S. Attorneys Office.
Businessman Sentenced for Foreign Bribery and Money Laundering Scheme Involving PetroEcuador Officials Published: 01 February 2021 01 February 2021
Miami, Florida - An Ecuadorian businessman living in Miami was sentenced Thursday to 35 months in prison for his role in a $4.4 million bribery and money laundering scheme that funneled bribes to then-public officials of Empresa Pública de Hidrocarburos del Ecuador (PetroEcuador), the state-owned and state-controlled oil company of Ecuador.
Nicholas L. McQuaid, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Miami Field Office made the announcement.
According to his plea, Armengol Alfonso Cevallos Diaz, 58, admitted that from 2012 through 2015 he conspired to solicit, intermediate, and pay bribes of $4.4 million from an oil services company and companies associated with or controlled by Cevallos to PetroEcuador officials by using U.S.-bas