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Miami-Dade Medicare fraud fugitive could be on the run as trans woman

Ana Zamora, formerly known as Armando Zamora, is a fugitive wanted for health care fraud in Miami-Dade County. (Corporate records and FBI)

MIAMI – Over two decades ago, a federal grand jury indicted Armando Zamora for healthcare fraud in Miami-Dade County.

Zamora and Aurora Estevez were accused of using Health South Medical Supply Corporation to prepare fraudulent Medicare claims for durable medical equipment such as custom-fitted orthotics.

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Estevez was arrested, pleaded guilty, and sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay about $505,000 in restitution in 2005. Zamora vanished, and federal agents suspect the 64-year-old transgender woman known as “Ana” could be hiding either in Central or South America.

They asked anyone with information about Zamora’s whereabouts to call the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General’s Fugitive Hotline at 1-888-476-4453.


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