May 14 2018
A McAllen doctor appeared in court Monday for his for his role in a $240 million health care fraud and international money laundering scheme.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Jorge Zamora-Quezada, 61, falsely diagnosed patients, including the young, elderly and disabled, and performed excessive medical procedures to increase his income and fund his lavish lifestyle.
According to the indictment, Zamora-Quezada and his co-conspirators purchased private jets, luxury vehicles, clothing from high-end retailers such as Louis Vuitton and exclusive real estate from the money he received from his scheme. Zamora-Quezada and his co-conspirators allegedly obstructed investigations by creating false and fictitious patient records and concealed thousands of medical records from Medicare by stashing them in an unsecured barn in the Rio Grande Valley.