{"id":348880,"date":"2026-06-24T19:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348880\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T19:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:27:10","slug":"fbi-puts-150k-bounty-on-houston-fraud-fugitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348880\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI puts $150K bounty on Houston fraud fugitive"},"content":{"rendered":"

FBI puts $150K bounty on Houston fraud fugitive<\/p>\n

Published 1:55 pm Wednesday, June 24, 2026<\/p>\n

HOUSTON \u2014 The FBI is offering a reward of up to $150,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Emylee Thai, accused of participating in a multimillion-dollar health care fraud scheme and fleeing the United States while awaiting trial.<\/p>\n

According to federal authorities, Thai was charged in a July 11, 2022, indictment with conspiracy to commit health care fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States and pay and receive health care kickbacks, and payment of kickbacks in connection with a federal health care program.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors allege that beginning in 2019, Thai, who owned a laboratory, paid marketers to refer doctors\u2019 orders and DNA samples from Medicare beneficiaries to her laboratory in exchange for a share of the reimbursements. Authorities allege the genetic testing was often medically unnecessary and frequently was not used in patients\u2019 medical treatment.<\/p>\n

Federal investigators said Thai\u2019s laboratory billed Medicare approximately $142 million for genetic testing and received about $95 million in payments on those claims.<\/p>\n

Following her arrest, Thai was released on bond under several pretrial conditions, including wearing a GPS monitoring device. Authorities said Thai\u2019s monitoring device was removed Dec. 8, 2022, and efforts to contact her were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n

A federal arrest warrant was issued Dec. 9, 2022, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas after Thai was charged with tampering with a GPS device.<\/p>\n


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Investigators later determined Thai allegedly fled the country aboard a private aircraft to Vietnam while using a false identity.<\/p>\n

A second federal arrest warrant was issued July 6, 2023, after Thai was charged with destruction and alteration of records in a federal investigation.<\/p>\n

The FBI is urging anyone with information about Thai\u2019s whereabouts to come forward. Anyone with information concerning the case is asked to contact the FBI\u2019s toll-free tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324). A reward of up to $150,000 is being offered for information leading to Thai\u2019s arrest and conviction.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jakob Gurley is a multimedia journalist with the Victoria Advocate. He can be reached at jakob.gurley@vicad.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FBI puts $150K bounty on Houston fraud fugitive Published 1:55 pm Wednesday, June 24, 2026 HOUSTON \u2014 The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-348880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}