United States of America, Cross v. William Li, and Danny Hogan, Defendant-Cross

WALTER, District Judge.

Defendants Li and Hogan were convicted in a kickback scheme between a Chicago union (General Services Employees Union Local 73) and a health care provider. Hogan was a business agent for the union who acted as liaison between the union’s trust fund, 2 which paid for health benefits, and health care providers. Li was a dentist who owned a company, Health Administrators, Inc. (HA), which secured commitments from Chicago area dentists to provide dental care at reduced rates. Hogan was not the union’s decision maker as to which health care companies actually received the…