From drug cash launderers to alleged rapists, 7 Miami massage therapists disciplined
Customers accused two Miami-Dade massage therapists of sexual battery. Two other massage therapists had licensing issues. Courts convicted three others of speeding, money laundering and healthcare fraud.
Last week, all seven faced various levels of punitive action from the Florida Department of Health.
In alphabetical order:
▪ Victorio Donato, licensed since July 27, 2018, emergency restriction order (ERO). A Nov. 22 customer at a Massage Envy woman said Donato placed his mouth on her genitals, his fingers in her vagina, his fingers in her mouth, covered her mouth while fondling her breasts and touching her vagina, and placed his penis in her hand.
The ERO says the woman, in tears, relayed this to a Miami police officer whom she saw in the parking lot.
Miami-Dade court records say no criminal charges have been filed. The ERO prohibits Donato from giving women massages.
▪ Qiangwei Dong, licensed since May 31, 2017, license suspended. Dong didn’t get her license suspended for the lack of judgment and concern for safety she showed when she got busted by the Collier County Sheriff’s Office doing 99 in a 70 mph zone of Interstate 75 last year. Or for getting busted by them doing 90 on I-75 in 2019.
It was the March 13, 2018, chase that started when she blew past a Collier deputy at 118 mph on I-75 and continued at 100 mph despite police chasing her with sirens blaring and lights flashing. She’s doing 18 months’ probation after pleading no contest to fleeing at a high speed with wanton disregard for safety of person or property.
Dong’s suspension says this is related to being a massage therapist because the 2018 chase shows “a lack of sound judgment and a complete disregard for the safety of others...”
When she gets off probation on Aug. 11, she’ll also be off license suspension.
▪ Quanjun He, licensed since Sept. 29, 2014, license revoked and $10,158 in fines. The administrative complaint, the facts of which the massage therapist didn’t dispute, says He owned New Star Massage at 10765 SW 56th St. On June 25, 2019, a Florida Department of Health undercover investigator came by and was offered a massage by a woman named Meizhu Zhang.
But, while He had a license to practice massage, she did not. He “aided, assisted, procured and or advised” an unlicensed person to practice massage therapy.
▪ Jorge Hernandez, licensed since July 12, 2011, voluntary surrender of his license with no opportunity to reapply. When Hernandez applied for his license in June 2011, he neglected to mention he’d been convicted in 2000 of money laundering, conspiracy to launder drug proceeds, witness tampering, and conspiracy to obstruct justice and violate a restraining order.
The problem was in the concealment of the conviction.
Hernandez was sentenced to 11 years and three months in federal prison, later reduced to seven years, 10 months.
▪ Lorena Restrepo Molina, licensed Oct. 12, 2017, voluntary surrender of the license with no opportunity to reapply. According to her admission of facts in federal court, Restrepo Molina partnered with Janoy Molina Fernandez to use Original Healthcare for some unoriginal healthcare fraud on Blue Cross Blue Shield. Molina pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and wire fraud in September 2019.
The conviction and the 15-month sentence weren’t the big problems. Not telling the Florida Department of Health within 30 days was the problem. Restrepo Molina was in the middle of the discipline process when she ended it by giving up her license.
▪ Larysa Solomina, licensed since Aug. 31, 2016, fined $2,187 and must attend a 10-hour Florida Laws & Rules class. Solomina is licensed. Therapy by Laura or Miami Massage Team, both operating out of a Miami Beach apartment, aren’t licensed.
▪ Joseph Succar, South Miami-Dade, license No. 9004. A Miami Herald story that posted Sunday detailed the allegations against Succar that resulted in an ERO.
