Wire Fraud – Indictment Change

By: Derek Hawkins//September 26, 2016//

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: United States of America v. Robert Kolbusz

Case No.: 15-2962

Officials: BAUER, POSNER, and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Wire Fraud – Indictment Change

Kolbusz, a dermatologist, submitted thousands of claims to the Medicare system and private insurers for the treatment of actinic keratosis, a skin condition that sometimes leads to cancer. He received many millions of dollars in payments. The evidence at trial permitted a reasonable jury to conclude that many if not substantially all of these claims could not have reflected an honest medical judgment—and that the treatment Kolbusz claimed to have supplied may have failed to help any patient who actually had actinic keratosis. We need not recount the evidence. Kolbusz put on a vigorous defense, but the record permitted the jury to find that he committed the crimes as charged.

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Attorney Derek A. Hawkins is the managing partner at Hawkins Law Offices LLC, where he heads up the firm’s startup law practice. He specializes in business formation, corporate governance, intellectual property protection, private equity and venture capital funding and mergers & acquisitions. Check out the website at www.hawkins-lawoffices.com or contact them at 262-737-8825.

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