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Armor Health Liquidates Assets—to Firm’s Founder
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2024
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2024, page 51
On August 2, 2024, Florida-based Armor Health Management LLC petitioned the Miami-Dade County Circuit Court to liquidate its assets to Enhanced Management Services (EMS), as part of a global settlement with creditors. That will free EMS and its owner, Dr. Jose Jesus Armas, of the bulk of debt owed …
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