United States v. Tull-Abreu

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

After a fourteen-day jury trial, Dr. Juan Jose Tull-Abreu was convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, eight counts of health care fraud, six counts of aggravated identity theft, and four counts of furnishing false or fraudulent information in prescriptions for controlled substances. Tull-Abreu's scheme went on for about four years and he profited by over $500,000 from his defrauding of the federal Medicare program and Medicare insurance plans. He was sentenced to a total of eighty-seven months' imprisonment.

On appeal, Tull-Abreu's counselled…