Health care fraud, as Florida readers are aware, is a big business across the United States and here in Florida. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, tens of billions of public tax dollars are lost to health care fraud every year, and that number is...
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Month: May 2015
Florida eye surgeon faces difficult strategic decisions in federal cases
Back in April, we wrote about the indictment of Senator Robert Menendez on corruption charges stemming from his friendship with Florida eye surgeon Salomon Melgen. As we noted, Menendez is accused of giving the eye surgeon gifts in exchange for political favors....
DUI case raises questions about the way prosecutors handle charges, P.2
In our last post, we began speaking about the DUI case of Kenneth Williams, particularly the reasons behind the dismissal of his case. As we noted, prosecution’s decision to not pursue the case was somewhat controversial, and this raises the question of how...
DUI case raises questions about the way prosecutors handle charges.
Tampa readers may have heard that Kenneth Williams, former cornerback for Florida State University, was arrested by university police officers last month in Tallahassee on suspicion of drunk driving. According to legal documents in Williams’ case, officers...
Advocating for reduced sentence requires strong advocacy and ethical sensibility
In our last post, we briefly touched on the topic of downward departures, which are deviations from the federal sentencing guidelines favoring an individual convicted of a crime. Downward departures, when appropriate, reduce an offender’s sentence, thus...