WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
COLUMBIA, S.C.- Herbert Leon Kimble, 60, of Chicago, has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for conspiracy to defraud the United States and failure to appear. He was also ordered for forfeit more than $195 million in money and property, and he was ordered to pay the Medicare program more than $199 million in restitution.
Kimble helped orchestrate a nationwide fraud scheme that used offshore call centers and sham telemedicine companies to generate medically unnecessary prescriptions for orthotic braces. His operation recruited vulnerable Medicare beneficiaries through deceptive advertisin...