United States Second Circuit

Conviction of health care fraud, 18 U.S.C. section 1347, is affirmed where the court applied the federal health care fraud statute to defendants' participation as passengers in staged automobile accidents, designed to profit from New York's no-fault automobile insurance regime.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/11/2003
• Decided 10/14/2003
• Published 10/14/2003

Judges

• CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge., Before:  MESKILL, CARDAMONE, and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jonathan C. Scott, Smithtown, New York (Scott & Scott, LLP, Smithtown, New York, of counsel), for Defendant-Appellant Policia Baptiste., Jason L. Solotaroff, New York, New York (Giskan & Solotaroff, New York, New York;  Robert A. Culp, Law Office of Robert A. Culp, New York, New York, of counsel), for Defendant-Appellant Guerline Dormetis., Martin G. Goldberg, Franklin Square, New York, submitted a brief for Defendant-Appellant Yves Baptiste., Andrew J. Frisch, Assistant United States Attorney, Brooklyn, New York (Roslynn R. Mauskopf, United States Attorney, Peter A. Norling, Scott B. Klugman, Assistant United States Attorneys, Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, New York, of counsel), for Appellee United States of America.