Legal Opinion
United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellant/cross-Appellee v. Krishnaswami Sriram, Defendant-Appellee/cross-Appellant
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 9, 2007No. 05-2752, 05-2802PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The defendant, a cardiologist who had billed Medicare some $17 million over a five-year period, pleaded guilty to health care fraud and tax fraud. He admitted having received “substantial payments” for fraudulent claims (estimated in the presen-tence investigation report to be between $5 and $10 million) submitted to health insurers and having defrauded the government of more than $550,000 in income tax. After a 13-day sentencing hearing, the district judge threw up his hands and imposed an absurdly light sentence of five years’ probation for both the health fraud and…
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