United States v. Garib-Bazain

This is an interlocutory criminal appeal from a district court order denying a motion to dismiss on statute-of-limitations grounds. Because it is “well settled law” that such an order “is not immediately appealable under the collateral order doctrine,” United States v. Pi, 174 F.3d 745, 750 (6th Cir.), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 120 S.Ct. 74, 145 L.Ed.2d 63 (1999), we dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction.

In connection with his employment at a medical institute in Puerto Rico, defendant Dr. Jorge Garib Bazain was indicted on two counts: conspiracy to commit program fraud, 18 U.S.C. §§ 371,…