Coast Guard suspends search for Miami man wanted on Medicare fraud charges
Source: Miami Herald
Posted on Saturday, 05.10.14
Coast Guard suspends search for Miami man wanted on Medicare fraud charges
By Andres Viglucci
aviglucci@MiamiHerald.com
By Andres Viglucci
aviglucci@MiamiHerald.com
The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended a search off the Florida Keys for an overdue boater who is wanted on federal Medicare fraud charges.
Robert A. Garcia-Esquerro, 43, disappeared after leaving the Key West Marina on the morning of May 3 aboard Miss Juliette, a 28-foot center-console boat with a yellow stripe.
Garcia-Esquerros wife reported him missing the next day, saying he had failed to return from what he said would be a fishing trip.
Federal officials subsequently disclosed that Garcia-Esquerro was wanted on fraud charges in Miami, raising the possibility that he had fled. Numerous suspects sought on healthcare fraud charges in South Florida have dodged the legal system by returning home to Cuba.
The Coast Guard said Friday it suspended its search for Garcia-Esquerra after covering 12,804 nautical miles in the Florida Straits. Two Coast Guard cutters, a helicopter and a plane assisted in the unsuccessful search, according to the Coast Guard.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/05/10/4109579/coast-guard-suspends-search-for.html#storylink=cpy
Judi Lynn
(160,542 posts)The father, Robert F. Garcia-Esquerro, is a disbarred Cuban American lawyer who was convicted of money laundering and bank fraud in 1993, according to Miami federal court records. He was sentenced to two years in prison. After his release, the father opened numerous healthcare and other businesses, records show.
voteearlyvoteoften
(1,716 posts)AleksS
(1,665 posts)Did they try looking in the Governor's Mansion?
I hear that's a favorite hangout of Medicare fraud perps.
secondvariety
(1,245 posts)IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,076 posts)... Jebby has an old real estate/Medicare fraud buddy who took off with $15 million at one time.
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"Recarey, who ran International Medical Centers (IMC), employed Jeb Bush as a real estate consultant and paid him a $75,000 fee for finding the company a new location, although the move never took place, which raised questions at the time. Jeb Bush did, however, lobby the Reagan/Bush administration vigorously and successfully on behalf of Recarey and IMC. "I want to be very wealthy," Jeb Bush told the Miami News when questioned during that period.
In 1985, Jeb Bush acted as a conduit on behalf of supporters of the Nicaraguan contras with his father, then the vice-president, and helped arrange for IMC to provide free medical treatment for the contras.
Recarey was later charged with massive medicare fraud but fled the US before his trial and is now a fugitive."
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UTUSN
(70,700 posts)specialty -- Shrub, drug runs and investment scams and public funding of his fatcat pals' private developments.
Neil, the Savings and loans racket.
Jeb Crow Shrub, bilking government programs like Medicare with his Cuban-exile pals, suitcases of cash on planes.
Poppy lashed out at reporters asking him about their shady deals, "My boys have a right to make a living!1"
Judi Lynn
(160,542 posts)had just pulled off the largest Medicare fraud in US history, right before he fled to Venezuela and then to Spain.
Bless their hearts.
IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,076 posts)... and then there is Marvin, "the sleeper".
loudsue
(14,087 posts)They're all crooked as a dog's hind leg.
geomon666
(7,512 posts)Geez
Octafish
(55,745 posts)What a smart guy said:
The Bush Family: A Continuing Criminal Enterprise?
Gary W. Potter, PhD.
Professor, Criminal Justice
Eastern Kentucky University
The S&Ls, the Mob and the Bushs
During the 1980's hundred of Savings and Loan Banks failed. Those bank failures cost U.S. taxpayers over $500 billion to cover federally insured losses, and much more to investigate the bank failures (Pizzo, Fricker, and Muolo, 1989; Brewton, 1992; Johnston, 1990). More than 75% of the Savings and Loan insolvencies where directly linked to serious and often criminal misconduct by senior financial insiders (Pizzo, Fricker and Muolo, 1989: 305). In fact, less than 10 percent of bank failures are related to economic conditions, the rest are caused by mismanagement or criminal conduct (Pizzo, Fricker and Muolo, 1989: 305).
A good example of the Savings and Loan failures can be found in the activities of Mario Renda, a Savings and Loan insider who often worked in close collaboration with organized crime (Pizzo, Fricker and Muolo, 1989: 123-126;302). Renda served as a middle man in arranging about $5 billion a year in deposits into 130 Savings and Loans, all of which failed (Kwitny, 1992: 27). Many of these deposits were made contingent on an agreement that the Savings and Loan involved would lend money to borrowers recommended by Renda, many of whom were organized crime figures or people entirely unknown to the banking institution involved (Kwitny, 1992: 27).
SNIP...
Prescott Bush: The Yakuzas Frontman
Finally, and perhaps most seriously, the Bush family pioneered the practice which has now become commonplace of collaboration between corporate and organized criminals. Prescott Bush, uncle of the current President and brother of the former President, played a key role in helping the Japanese Yakuza extend their financial and real estate holdings to the United States. In 1989, Prescott Bush made arrangements for a front company for Japanese organized crime groups to buy into two U.S. corporations and to make a sizeable real investment in the U.S. (Helm, 1991a: 1; Isikoff, 1992: A1). West Tsusho, a Japanese corporation, was identified by Japanese police officials as a front company for one of that countrys largest organized crime syndicates. Prescott Bush was paid a fee of $500,000 for his help in negotiating West Tsushos purchase of controlling interest in Assets Management, a U.S. corporation (Helm, 1991a: 1; Isikoff, 1992: A1). Bush also assisted the Japanese mob in investing in Quantam Access, a U.S. software company, which was ultimately taken over by the Japanese (Helm, 1991b: 10; Isikoff, 1992: A1). Both companies ultimately went into bankruptcy (Isikoff, 1992: A1; Moses, 1992).
George Bush Sr.: Shutting Down the Organize Crime Strike Forces
Despite assessments from senior law enforcement officers and experts on organized crime that efforts to control organized crime would be crippled, in December 1989, the administration of George Bush, Sr. abolished all 14 regional organized crime strike forces (McAlister, 1989: A 21; Struck out, 1990). The organized crime strike had been created as independent entities so they would not be subject to political influences or bureaucratic wrangling within federal law enforcement. In the two decades of their operation the strike forces had secured convictions of major organized crime figures in several U.S. cities (Struck out, 1990). It is at the very least curious to note that the federal strike force in Miami had been responsible for indicting Miguel Recarey, the man for whom Jeb Bush had intervened with regulators. Organized crime strike forces had similarly indicted Mario Renda, the organized crime liaison to the S& Ls, as well as several other key figures in the Savings and Loan Fiasco (Pizzo, Fricker, and Mulolo, 1989: 112, 120-123, 303, 337).
CONTINUED...
http://critcrim.org/critpapers/potter.htm
That's the way a professor of criminal justice puts it. Bartcop, to get a better handle on War Inc's first family, called them the "BFEE" for short.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)joshcryer
(62,276 posts)dembotoz
(16,806 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)And exposed a lot of the corruption that has cost Americans a fortune in fraud.
CanonRay
(14,103 posts)father founding
(619 posts)And Dinesh is trying to tell us that the wealth doesn't come from theft.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Isn't he in the Governor's mansion?
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)"That trend continues with a shambolic comic tale of garden-variety Florida crime: a wealthy Medicare fraudster appears to have died in a boating accident. The only evidence of death is his arm, which is reeled in by a hapless vacationer."
http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Monkey-Carl-Hiaasen-ebook/dp/B00AP2VR8W/ref=tmm_kin_title_0