Legal Opinion
United States v. Benjamin Martinez
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 16, 2019No. 17-20063PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LESLIE H. SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judge:
All the defendants were convicted of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and several substantive counts of health care fraud. Individual defendants were convicted of different additional offenses. Defendants appeal, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence, the jury instructions, the exclusion of certain evidence, and one of the sentences. We AFFIRM.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
This case involves a scheme to defraud Medicare orchestrated by two men: Zaven "Mike" Pogosyan and Edvard Shakbazyan. From 2008 to 2010, Pogosyan opened three purported…
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