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Feds urging LWOP sentence for doctor and wife involved in (extreme!?!) health care fraud

By Douglas A. Berman

This AP article, headlined "Feds seek life sentences for doctor, wife convicted in overdose deaths case," details that the feds are seeking the harshest possible federal sentence in for notable (white-collar?) offenses.  Here are the interesting particulars: Prosecutors have asked a federal judge to put a Kansas doctor and his wife behind bars for life for operating a clinic linked to dozens of patient overdose deaths. In a court document filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Wichita, prosecutors asked Judge Monti Belot to impose life prison sentences on Dr. Stephen Schneider and his wife, Linda Schneider.  Four of the most serious counts the Schneiders were convicted of carry minimum sentences of 20 years behind bars, and prosecutors asked Belot to impose those sentences consecutively...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 08, 2010 (boomark / email).