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Thursday, June 18, 2015
The West Miami drug store was called E-Z Pharmacy. A more apt name would have been “E-Z Money.” The former owners — Eklis Almanza and husband Juan E. Diaz Gonzalez — pocketed $4.8 million from the taxpayer-funded Medicare program by submitting bogus claims for prescription drugs that none of their customers ever needed or received, according to a federal indictment. In Little Havana, Enemisis Torres is accused of selling forged and altered prescriptions of Medicare patients at her rehabilitation clinic, Palmetto Comprehensive Healthcare, to a ring of Miami-Dade pharmacy owners. They in turn fraudulently billed the federal program $21.2 million, prosecutors say. Her clinic was raided early Thursday. Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article24842470.html#storylink=cpy
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