United States DC Circuit

Defendant's health care fraud conviction is affirmed, where the District Court did not commit plain error in the restitution order it issued with respect to Defendant's sentence, due to the split in Circuit authority regarding the specificity required in such orders.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/18/2008
• Decided 04/21/2009
• Published 04/21/2009

Judges

• Before:  SENTELLE, Chief Judge, and GRIFFITH, Circuit Judge, and RANDOLPH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Howard B. Katzoff, appointed by the court, argued the cause and filed the briefs for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Suzanne G. Curt, Assistant U.S. Attorney, argued the cause for appellee.   With her on the brief were Jeffrey A. Taylor, U.S. Attorney, and Roy W. McLeese III, Elizabeth Trosman, Thomas E. Zeno, and Deborah L. Connor, Assistant U.S. Attorneys.  Thomas J. Tourish Jr., Assistant U.S. Attorney, entered an appearance.