Fifth Circuit Vacates Fraud Conviction after Denying Codefendants’ Appeal
The Fifth Circuit recently reversed a former home health agency employee’s conviction and vacated his sentence related to three counts of healthcare fraud and abuse. In United States v. Nora, Jonathan Nora was convicted by the trial court of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, aiding and abetting healthcare fraud, and several violations of the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute alongside five codefendants, all employed by home health agency Abide Home Care Services, Inc. This reversal comes soon after a separate Fifth Circuit panel denied an appeal from Nora’s codefendants; Nora’s appeal was considered separate from theirs.
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