UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Steven B. WEISS, Defendant-Appellant

MESKILL, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Wexler, J., entered after a jury trial, convicting Steven Weiss on counts of mail fraud, mail fraud conspiracy, and making false statements on Medicare and Medicaid forms in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1341, 18 U.S.C. § 371, and 42 U.S.C. §§ 1395nn(a)(l) and 1396h(a)(l), respectively. Weiss appeals his conviction on several grounds, specifically the sufficiency of the evidence, bias by the court, prosecu-torial misconduct, ethnic bias and several evidentiary rulings.…