Hialeah businessman likely sent cash from $41 million Medicare fraud to Cuba, feds say

MIAMI – A man used his Hialeah companies to launder nearly $2 million as part of a larger, $41 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to a federal criminal complaint.

Agents said Edelberto Borges Morales, 62, was detained and questioned about the scheme before he boarded a flight to Cuba on Thursday. But instead of the island nation, he landed in a federal jail cell.

According to the complaint, the scheme involved fraudulent claims for durable medical equipment — or DME…

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