The Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, Fraud Section charged our client and nine other individuals in a $1.4 Billion health care fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering conspiracy (the largest health care fraud case that DOJ has ever prosecuted) concerning toxicology laboratories’ using rural and critical-access hospitals in an alleged pass-through billing scheme. After a six-week trial, during which the DOJ presented forty-two witnesses—including cooperating, alleged co-conspirators—and over 500 exhibits, the jury deliberated for four days before failing to unanimously agree on a verdict, prompting the Court to declare a mistrial. DOJ released all of the client’s seized assets at the conclusion of the trial. The Government elected to try the case again with a different expert witness and an additional cooperating, alleged co-conspirator, and after a four-week trial, the jury found our client not guilty on all counts in the indictment.
