Two people the FBI says have ties to Palm Beach County are among eight fugitives on the agency’s newly created Most Wanted Fraudsters list.
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The FBI Miami Division announced Tuesday it is offering a reward of $150,000 for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of Khalid Ahmed Satary, who is accused in a $547 million health care fraud conspiracy.
Elaine Escoe was the first fugitive in the FBI Miami Division to be added to the list, which was created in June. She is wanted for her alleged role in a conspiracy that fraudulently obtained more than $32 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds, the FBI said. She was last seen June 3, 2025, in Palm Beach County, and the FBI is also offering a reward of $150,000 for information leading to her arrest.
Satary was the owner of several diagnostic testing labs throughout the U.S. that allegedly billed Medicare for medically unnecessary genetic tests between 2016 and 2019, according to the FBI.
He is accused of conspiring with dozens of people, from patient recruiters to telemarketers to those with telemedicine companies. Through “deceptive marketing campaigns” and paying illegal kickbacks and bribes, he generated cancer genetic test samples that allotted reimbursements between $10,000 to $20,000 per sample, according to his page on the fraudsters list.
Satary allegedly billed Medicare for more than $547 million through his labs and paid millions in illegal kickbacks and bribes to doctors and patient recruiters, the FBI said.
In 2019, Satary was charged by indictment in federal court in New Orleans and was released on bond with conditions prohibiting him from working in health care.
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While on pre-trial release, Satary is accused of conspiring with labs in Houston to submit fraudulent genetic testing claims to Medicare, the FBI said. A federal arrest warrant was issued in Louisiana in November 2022 for violating his pre-trial release.
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Satary was ordered to attend a hearing one month later, but he didn’t show, despite attending more than a dozen earlier court appearances, according to a transcript of a hearing held in Louisiana federal court in December 2022. One of his defense attorneys told the judge he was last in touch with Satary at the end of November and had been trying to contact him again since.
The defense attorney told the judge he could not tell whether Satary’s phone was working “although it does appear as though it is not going through,” according to the hearing transcript.
Satary’s son and his ex-wife also did not know where Satary was, according to the transcript.
While on pre-trial release, Satary had been allowed to travel throughout the 48 adjoining states as long as he notified his probation officer of his travels, according to the hearing transcript.
The judge at the end of the hearing said the case was “in fugitive status.”
In addition to Delray Beach, Satary has connections with or may travel to Houston, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Dubai, Jordan and the Israel/Palestine areas, according to his page on the fraudsters list.
FBI Miami Division did not elaborate on Satary’s connection to Delray Beach in the news release Tuesday.
He is believed to be in Dubai, according to the federal Office of Inspector General.
He has used multiple dates of birth that would make him 54 or 53 years old and aliases including Khalio A. Satary, Rocky Satary, DJ Rock Satary, ElSattari and Khaled.
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