May 26, 2025

Texas doctor has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for orchestrating one of the most egregious medical fraud schemes in modern US history making $118 million in false claims.

Jorge Zamora-Quezada, 68, a once-respected rheumatologist, was convicted of diagnosing hundreds of healthy patients with a life-altering disease they never had – all to bankroll his empire of jets, beachfront properties, and European sports cars.

Zamora-Quezada’s criminal scheme centered around one of deception as set about falsely diagnosing people with rheumatoid arthritis, an incurable autoimmune disease that affects joints but can be treated with various medications and chemotherapy drugs that involve toxins.

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