United States v. Apostolos G. Chakmakis

Dr. Apostólos G. Chakmakis was convicted on four counts of violating 18 U.S. C., § 1001, 1 to-wit, the filing of false and fraudulent applications for payment for professional services rendered Medicare patients under the Social Security Act. He was sentenced to serve thirty days in the penitentiary consecutively on each of the counts. Maximum sentence could have been twenty years and a fine of $40,000. We affirm.

The appellant says that he should have been indicted and prosecuted under another Section of the Code, i. e., 42 U.S.C., § 408(c), which was enacted subsequently to 18 U.S.C., § 1001…