Cuban Immigrant Wanted In Kentucky

{Kentucky}...Rodolfo Bouza, a 46 year old Cuban immigrant from Miami, is wanted in Kentucky on charges that he defrauded the health care plan by submitting bills for medical supplies Chris Covington, a criminal investigator with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, says he never delivered nor had any intention of producing. Covington says Bouza's case is connected to the prosecutions of four other men in Louisville. Two of those men are awaiting trial, while the other two have pleaded guilty and agreed to repay $1.9 million to the government. Covington and Gary Cantrell, assistant inspector general for investigations for Health and Human Services in Washington, say the scheme started in Miami with someone hiring recruiters and sprawling across the country, usually ending with someone like Bouza operating a small office and billing operation. Two recruiters hired Bouza, 50 year old Leobaldo Perez Gonzalez of Miami and 31 year old Alexander Castillo Dopico, as "nominee owners" to run small offices in Louisville and apply to become Medicare suppliers, giving them access to names of patients and doctors in the programs. Bouza's company, Newberg Services, Inc., billed Medicare $750,000 for bandages and durable medical equipment that were never produced.