United States v. Woods

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The was found guilty of multiple counts of health care fraud, 18 U.S.C. § 1347, and Judge Kendall sentenced him to 70 months in prison (a shade under six years). His appeal argues only that he should be re-sentenced because the judge did not address one of his arguments for a lighter sentence — that after committing the fraud he landed an honest job and performed it in exemplary fashion, demonstrating that he has been rehabilitated. The fraud was the brainchild of a pair of companies (both run by the same doctor) for which the defendant worked. The companies purported to…