The FBI Just Caught Its Third ‘Most Wanted Fraudster’ in Five Weeks — A Man Accused of a $547 Million Medicare Scheme.
The FBI has captured Khalid Ahmed Satary, a fugitive accused of running a $547,000,000 Medicare genetic-testing fraud scheme, and returned him to the United States — the third capture in five weeks from the bureau’s new “Most Wanted Fraudsters” list. Satary was indicted in 2019, skipped a 2022 bond hearing, and had been a fugitive ever since.
FBI Director Kash Patel called it proof the list is working: three names, three captures, in barely a month. The country where Satary was actually seized was not disclosed — investigators had previously believed he was hiding in the United Arab Emirates.
He is expected in a South Florida-area federal courtroom this week to face the reactivated 2019 indictment. He has been convicted of nothing; the allegations below are exactly that — allegations.
- $547,000,000 — the alleged Medicare fraud scheme Khalid Ahmed Satary is accused of running — FBI, HHS-OIG
- 3rd — capture from the FBI's Most Wanted Fraudsters list in five weeks — Kash Patel, FBI
- 2016–2019 — the years prosecutors say the alleged genetic-testing scheme operated
- $150,000 — the reward the FBI had offered for information leading to Satary's arrest
Satary is the third fugitive taken off the FBI’s Most Wanted Fraudsters list since it launched on June 4, 2026 — and the second, after Herbert Leon Kimble, accused of running a Medicare scheme worth nine figures or more. Patel framed the pace as a message to everyone else still on the list: “The arrest of Khalid Ahmed Satary and return to the U.S. is the third Most Wanted Fraudster capture from this FBI and our partners in just five weeks — continuing the historic run of success for this new initiative.”
Satary is due in federal court this week for an initial appearance, where the reactivated 2019 indictment and the 2022 bond-violation warrant will both be on the table. Nothing has been adjudicated; he remains presumed innocent on every count.
#BREAKING: Have you seen him? Khalid Ahmed Satary was charged in the Eastern District of Louisiana for his alleged role in a $547 million dollar healthcare fraud conspiracy. In 2022, a federal warrant was issued after he violated the terms of his pretrial release.
According to the indictment, Satary owned or controlled three labs — Performance Laboratories in Oklahoma, Lazarus Services in Louisiana, and Clio Labs in Georgia — that billed Medicare between 2016 and 2019 for cancer genetic (CGx) tests, reimbursed at $10,000 to $20,000 per sample. Prosecutors allege the tests were medically unnecessary, generated through deceptive telemarketing and “health fair” recruiting, and approved by telemedicine doctors who were paid kickbacks to sign off without examining — sometimes without ever speaking to — the Medicare beneficiaries whose names ended up on the claims.
A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Louisiana indicted Satary on September 26, 2019, on conspiracy to commit health care and wire fraud, health care fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to pay and receive kickbacks, and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments.
Satary was released on bond after his 2019 indictment, over the government’s objection, and barred from working in health care. Prosecutors allege he ignored that condition — conspiring with Houston-area labs to submit more fraudulent Medicare claims while his original case was still pending. He failed to appear for a scheduled court date in December 2022, and a federal arrest warrant followed. He has been a fugitive since.
“The arrest of Khalid Ahmed Satary and return to the U.S. is the third Most Wanted Fraudster capture from this FBI and our partners in just five weeks — continuing the historic run of success for this new initiative.”
Kash Patel · FBI Director
Investigators had tied Satary to Delray Beach, Florida, and believed he was hiding in the United Arab Emirates, which has no formal extradition treaty with the United States. Neither the FBI nor Fox News’ report specified where he was actually apprehended.
With President Trump's leadership, this @FBI and our interagency partners are conducting massive fraud takedowns coast to coast — and we're not stopping.
The Most Wanted Fraudsters list was Patel’s answer to a proposal from Vice President JD Vance, who leads the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud: take the FBI’s classic Ten Most Wanted format and apply it to financial-crime fugitives. Patel unveiled the list on June 4, 2026, in Columbus, Ohio, naming eight fugitives collectively accused of nearly $1,300,000,000 in fraud. Captured names are removed and replaced — Satary and a second fugitive, Emylee Thai, were added June 23, 2026, the same day the two fugitives before them were confirmed captured.
The list’s first two captures: Said Abdullahi Ereg, arrested at the Minneapolis airport returning from Kenya in an alleged $4,200,000 child-nutrition-program fraud tied to the Feeding Our Future scandal, and Herbert Leon Kimble, arrested in the Philippines after allegedly running a $1,200,000,000 orthopedic-brace Medicare scheme. Both cases are covered in more detail elsewhere on this site. Satary’s capture makes three for three since the list went live.
Today we are here to announce the results of the 2026 National Healthcare Fraud Takedown.
Posted July 5, 2026, alongside a video announcing the takedown's results — 455 defendants charged, over $6.5 billion in alleged fraud — the same enforcement push that put Satary on the Most Wanted Fraudsters list.
Khalid Ahmed Satary skipped bond in 2022 rather than face a $547 million Medicare fraud indictment, and stayed a fugitive for nearly three years. The FBI’s new Most Wanted Fraudsters list has now closed that gap three times in five weeks — Satary joins Said Abdullahi Ereg and Herbert Leon Kimble as fugitives the list actually caught, not just named. He has been convicted of nothing yet; a federal courtroom, not a wanted poster, decides what happens next.
