Legal Opinion
United States v. Klein
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 18, 2008No. 07-20599PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
Ira Klein, a physician, treated a number of patients who had contracted Hepatitis C. A jury convicted him of eighteen counts of mail fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1341 and twenty-six counts of health care fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1347 for submitting false claims for many of those Hepatitis C treatments. The jury also returned a special verdict finding that Klein had received $10 million in gross proceeds from the fraud underlying his convictions. Klein was sentenced to 135 months’ imprisonment, the bottom of his guideline range, which had been…
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