Aug 4, 2009 11:08 am US/Eastern
Fmr. Bank Teller Sentenced For Medicare Scam
MIAMI (CBS4) ―
A former Bank of America teller has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for her part in a scheme to defraud Medicare of nearly two million dollars.
Michelle Torres was given a three and a half year sentence which included ten months for fleeing the country in an attempt to avoid prosecution. After being indicted in 2007, the 31-year-old fled to the Dominican Republic.
According to prosecutors Torres, who worked at Bank of America's Sky Lake branch in Miami, allowed the owners of S.Y.C. Home Medical Equipment to make large, unreported cash withdrawals from their company's two bank accounts in 2006. Torres would take the cash payments from them in exchange for falsifying reporting documents and other bank services.
The owners of S.Y.C. Home Medical Equipment, Juan Zaragoza and Angel Quesada have already been sentenced for defrauding the Medicare program of $1.8 million dollars; Zaragoza will serve two and a half years, Quesada was sentenced to four and a half years.
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