United States Tenth Circuit

Defendant's conviction for carrying out a scheme to defraud Medicare is affirmed over his claim that the district court erred in denying his motion for a judgment of acquittal because the claims made to Medicare were unpayable on their face.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/21/2005
• Published 04/21/2005

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY, ANDERSON, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• David C. Japha (Thomas R. Lawrence, Springfield, MO, on the briefs), The Law Offices of David C. Japha, P.C., Denver, CO, for Defendant-Appellant., James C. Murphy, Assistant United States Attorney, (John W. Suthers, United States Attorney, Kathleen Tafoya, Assistant United States Attorney, Michael Theis, Assistant United States Attorney, with him on the brief), Denver, CO, for Plaintiff-Appellee.