United States v. Dennis Barson, Jr.

Defendants appeal their convictions for conspiracy to commit health care fraud and several substantive counts of health care fraud. Defendants primarily challenge the sufficiency of the evidence, the court’s deliberate ignorance jury instruction, a number of evidentiary rulings, and the enhancements applied to their sentences. We AFFIRM.

I

Defendants Dennis Barson, Jr. and Dario Juarez were charged with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1349 (Count 1) and nineteen counts of health care fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1347 (Counts 2 through 20). After a jury trial,…