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Published Tuesday, May 14, 2013 17:12

By Cafe Fuerte

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businessman Roberto F. Marrero, owner of the unique cable station TV Cubana, was arrested on Tuesday as part of a nationwide sweep that included 89 defendants for Medicare fraud in eight U.S. cities.

Marrero and his wife Sandra Fernandez listed Viera 24 involved in Miami, as the owner of Trust Care Health Services, a nursing care with which have embezzled $ 20 million from the federal health program .

Numerous

Cuban artists Cuban TV worked, including German Barrios, Mirtha Medina, Alfredito Rodriguez, Rosana Fidel Pérez Michel and Montenegro.

Michel Perez, an actor best known for the Cuban public the 70s and 80s, he worked several seasons in the production.

“versions of the novels I Dona Barbara , Enrique Lagardere and adventure Jaguar , which also acted Marrero himself” , told CaféFuerte. “But then these productions never ended.”

Other former employees

Television Cubana complained of irregularities with employees.

“Nobody knew where the money came from to those productions, plus it is not finished at the end [Marrero] said that he had lost,” he told CaféFuerte an actress who preferred not to be identified. “It paid really well, although there were cases of people that you issued a bad check. But one has to solve and that was work.”

Some former employees also noted that the production closed Marrero after tax season ended and reopened after a few months. Be paid by check or cash.

Marrero

traveled frequently to Cuba and sometimes commented on the possibility to go on record on the island, which never materialized.

Luxuries

According to documents filed in court, Marrero invested the money in buying luxury vehicles, including two Lamborghinis, a Ferrari and a Bentley.

Founded in 2000, Cuban television was located in a building of Little Havana and employed known Cuban art world figures, former recreated and dramatized adventures spaces that were successful in recent years in Cuba, and put screen other popular television programs on the island.

Some titles of his programs were What happens today, Esquina Habanera, Rhythms of Cuba, The Eater, Adventure, Mikin Drive, Casino Joy, Cuban Night, Chinatown, The Magic of the 60′s, Here’s Mirtha Medina and Your Night with Alfredo, led by singer Alfredo Rodriguez.

Known

singers as Carlos Manuel, Isaac Delgado and Manolin, and popular comedians in Miami were frequent presence in the spaces of the station.

According to the prosecution, the company Marrero and his wife, Care Health Services, Inc. (Care Trust) paid kickbacks and bribes to patient recruiters for Medicare beneficiaries, and then had more than 20 million of dollars in fraudulent claims to Medicare, mainly specialized diabetic care and physical and occupational therapy.

If convicted

, Marrero and his wife face up to ten years in prison on charges of fraud and five years for each count of bribery.

Marrero indictment against the couple as part of an alleged embezzlement overall $ 223 billion to Medicare, perpetrated by various health professionals and institutions in Miami, Tampa, Houston, Baton Rouge, Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago and New York.

The announcement was made in Washington by Attorney General Eric Holder, accompanied by Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.