Marketing firm owners plead guilty in $4M health care kickback scheme

Frank Monte and Kimberley Anderson face five years in prison and must forfeit more than $1.7 million in assets.

By Business Observer Staff
| 9:52 a.m. September 12, 2019
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TAMPA — The owners of Centurion Compounding Inc., a Wesley Chapel marketing company, have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to pay health care kickbacks.

Frank Monte, 40, and Kimberley Anderson, 52, could go to prison for five years for the alleged scheme, which, according to authorities, saw them enter into a lucrative but illegal marketing agreement in 2014 with LifeCare, a Pinellas County pharmacy owned by Carlos Mazariegos and Benjamin Nundy.