Legal Opinion
United States v. Iwuala
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 10, 2015No. 13-2497PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This case is a poster child for the adage that easy money often leads to hard lessons. For several months, defendant-appellant Blessing Sydney Iwuala was awash in a flood of easy money as a Medicare-approved provider of durable medical equipment (DME). But when the easy money dried up, he found himself facing criminal prosecution on multiple charges of health-care fraud. The trial did not go well for the defendant, and he now challenges both his conviction and his sentence. After careful consideration of his asseverational array, we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
In 2007, the…
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