Sufficiency of Evidence

By: Derek Hawkins//June 13, 2017//

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: United States of America v. Shanin Moshiri

Case No.: 16-1126

Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, BAUER, Circuit Judge, and SHADID, * District Judge.

Focus: Sufficiency of Evidence

On July 2, 2015, after a bench trial, Doctor Shanin Moshiri was convicted on one count of receiving illegal remuneration in exchange for referring patients to Sacred Heart Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1320a–7b(b) (Anti-Kickback Statute). On this appeal, Moshiri challenges the sufficiency of the government’s evidence and the district court’s admission of certain expert testimony. For the following reasons, we affirm the conviction.

Affirmed

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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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