August 02, 2024
A divided Second Circuit panel on Friday upheld the convictions of three men who recruited patients for a more than $31 million trip-and-fall fraud scam that personal injury lawyers and doctors orchestrated, but remanded the case for further findings on the number of bogus accidents involved in the scheme.
June 15, 2023
A Manhattan federal judge sentenced a former chiropractor to nine months of home detention Thursday for his central role in a "massive fraud," walking back a vow to imprison the government cooperator at the last moment during an emotional sentencing.
October 04, 2022
A New York doctor charged with conducting unnecessary surgeries in a $30 million trip-and-fall fraud scheme asked a Manhattan federal judge to remove himself from the case Tuesday, saying the judge's string of scathing comments shows he has "prejudged" the outcome.