DOJ Enforcement Spotlight -- Cancer Doctor Farid Fata
Posted 07/14/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Last Friday, the Department of Justice secured a 45-year prison sentence against the now infamous Detroit-area doctor, Farid Fata. He was also ordered to forfeit $17.6 million of illegal reimbursements he obtained from Medicare and private insurance companies. This stems from his guilty plea in September 2014 to violating the False Claims Act with a health care fraud scheme...
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