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Herb Kimble

American businessman and fugitive (born 1966)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ140306932
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Herbert Leon Kimble (born May 12, 1966) is an American businessman, film and television producer and director. He is the founder of streaming network UrbanflixTV.

In 2019, he was charged with Medicare fraud. After failing to appear at court hearings in 2024, he was placed on the FBI most wanted list. Soon after, he was apprehended in the Philippines and brought back to the US for sentencing.

Early life

Herbert Leon Kimble was born in Chicago on May 12, 1966.

His career started as a child actor.

Film career

In 2017, Kimble co-founded CineFocus Productions in West Hollywood, a film production company.

In 2019, he launched the streaming network UrbanflixTV to offer original and licensed multicultural programming.

Medicare fraud

Scheme

From 2011 to 2019, Kimble operated a call center-based operation in the Philippines to serve as the marketing engine for Medicare fraud, targeting beneficiaries of Medicare insurance.

The scheme involved enticing potential victims via television and online advertisements.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Herb Kimble” is american businessman and fugitive (born 1966). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Herb, Kimble and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1966, 2019, 2024, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1966-05-12. For this dossier, Herb, Kimble and American is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Herb Kimble” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.