Calling the scheme "horrific," a judge sentenced a Detroit-area
cancer doctor to 45 years in prison Friday for collecting millions from
insurance companies while poisoning more than 500 patients through
needless treatments that wrecked their health.
U.S. District Judge Paul Borman this week heard stories of brittle
bones and fried organs as patients chillingly described the effects of
excessive chemotherapy at the hands of Dr. Farid Fata.
Fata "shut down whatever compassion he had as a doctor and switched it to making money," Borman said.
Moments earlier, the judge called it a "huge, horrific series of criminal acts."
Fata, 50, offered no excuses before getting his punishment.
Stone-faced all week in court, he repeatedly broke down in loud sobs as
he begged for mercy Friday.
"I misused my talents, yes, and permitted this sin to enter me
because of power and greed," Fata said. "My quest for power is
self-destructive."
Detroit-area cancer doctor gets 45 years in prison for fraud | Fox News
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‘CBS Evening News': Correspondent Jim Axelrod Investigates Fraud | Variety
In the first part of a two-night report, CBS News correspondent Jim Axelrod discovers that American taxpayers are spending millions of dollars on questionable medications for military personnel and veterans. The creams, which are touted as having the ability to soothe pain and scars, are marketed directly to military personnel, and dozens of websites advertise them as low-cost cure-alls for service members’ wounds and pain.
The catch, Axelrod finds, is that the medicines aren’t so cheap. Major General Richard Thomas, who oversees the military health benefit system Tricare, tells him the agency is on track to spend more than $2 billion in taxpayer funds in 2015 on the dubious prescriptions.
Axelrod has spent much time covering the rise of so-called “pharmaceutical compounding,” in which drugs are made for specific patients’ needs, sometimes by an outsourced pharmacy operation that may not be regulated as much as a hospital facility.
‘CBS Evening News': Correspondent Jim Axelrod Investigates Fraud | Variety
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