The Brief Herbert Leon Kimble was sentenced to 20 years in prison in a multi-million-dollar Medicare scheme. Kimble used medical patients and prescriptions that were used as false claims to Medicare to illegally obtain money. The U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Carolina said he was later captured in the Philippines and indicted on several charges. A 60-year-old man was sentenced to 20 years in prison in a $365 million Medicare scheme. Herbert Leon Kimble will serve prison time for conspiracy to defraud the United States and failure to appear. Kimble was also ordered to forfeit over $195 million in money and property , and he was ordered to pay the Medicare program more than $199 million in restitution, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Carolina. Man sentenced in Medicare scheme Dig deeper: Herbert Leon Kimble was the mastermind of a fraud scheme that utilized offshore call centers and fake telemedicine organizations to produce medically unnecessary prescriptions for orthotic braces. Kimble recruited vulnerable Medicare recipients through fake marketing and then sold their information with signed doctors' orders to DME organizations in exchange for illegal payoffs, disguised as legitimate business payments. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Carolina, the medical professionals involved in the scam didn't perform real consultation and only signed preselected brace orders to enhance Medicare restitution. Kimble also arranged the acquisition of medical patients and prescriptions and supplied them to DME companies that billed Medicare millions of dollars in false claims, which led to $365 million in the fake claims, which Medicare reimbursed more than $199 million. Kimble personally profited over $195 million from the scheme and the money to purchase a luxury condo at the Shangri-La hotel in the Philippines. Officials said Kimble pleaded guilty in 2019 to a broad conspiracy against the United States but l #fox26houston #crimewatchhouston