GUILTY MI - Dr. Farid Fata, oncologist, charged in cancer fraud, Oakland County, 2013

[BetteDavisEyes]

Tonight (Sunday) at 8:00PM (EST) on NBC:

PREVIEW Dateline Exclusive: Do No Harm

25 people whose lives were torn apart by Dr. Farid Fata's cancer fraud share their harrowing stories in an emotional group interview for the first time. A special hour anchored and reported by Lester Holt airs Dateline Sunday January 17 at 8/7c, 10pm PST.

http://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/vide...m-599937091517

 

[daisymae]

Tonight (Sunday) at 8:00PM (EST) on NBC:

PREVIEW Dateline Exclusive: Do No Harm

25 people whose lives were torn apart by Dr. Farid Fata's cancer fraud share their harrowing stories in an emotional group interview for the first time. A special hour anchored and reported by Lester Holt airs Dateline Sunday January 17 at 8/7c, 10pm PST.

http://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/vide...m-599937091517

It's coming on TV in about an hour, 8PM EST. NBC Dateline

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Patients await ruling in cancer doctor’s restitution

Oralandar Brand-Williams, The Detroit News 11:34 p.m. EST March 9, 2016

It’s been more than six years since Robert Sobieray met Farid Fata.

Soon after, the Oakland Township doctor began ordering treatments for cancer Sobieray didn’t have.

The treatments not only brought Sobieray a lot of fear and anxiety but they also caused all of his teeth to fall out, leaving him nearly emaciated...

Sobieray is among the former patients and their family members who plan to attend a restitution hearing Thursday in federal court. Fata bilked Medicare and Blue Cross out of millions in an elaborate insurance fraud after prescribing needless chemotherapy and other treatments for at least 553 of his patients, none of whom had cancer.

He pleaded guilty in September 2014 to 16 counts of health care fraud, money laundering and conspiracy to give or receive kickbacks. At his sentencing in July to 45 years in prison U.S. District Judge Paul Borman called the doctor’s crimes “a huge, horrific series of criminal acts.”

Former Fata patients will be the priority in receiving restitution from his $17.6 million in forfeited funds...

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...2016/03/09/fata-restitution-hearing/81566248/

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Cancer doctor’s victims to get funeral, medical funds

Jennifer Chambers, The Detroit News 4:55 p.m. EDT March 28, 2016

Funeral expenses and mental health treatments for victims of jailed oncologist Dr. Farid Fata will be covered by a new restitution fund of up to $1.8 million, according to federal prosecutors.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Monday the fund will cover funeral expenses as well as psychiatric and psychological expenses paid out of pocket related to Fata’s treaments.

Fata bilked Medicare and Blue Cross out of millions in an elaborate insurance fraud after prescribing needless chemotherapy and other treatments for at least 553 of his patients. Some did not have cancer...

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...s-victims-get-funeral-medical-funds/82354804/

 

[terrio]

Wow this is nuts. What an evil man!


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[BetteDavisEyes]

Cancer doctor loses appeal of conviction on drug scheme

Oralandar Brand-Williams, The Detroit News 2:43 p.m. EDT May 25, 2016

Nearly a year after he was sentenced for “horrific” crimes in an elaborate scheme that involved giving chemotherapy to cancer-free patients, convicted oncologist Farid Fata on Wednesday lost his appeal of that conviction...

In a 12-page ruling Wednesday from the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, judges wrote: “Fata was able to make false diagnoses and administer potentially deadly, yet, unnecessary, course of treatment for hundreds of patients who relied on his presumed integrity and accepted his presumed professional judgments — all to their detriment and to Fata’s financial gain. Fata occupied a position of trust when he abused his patients by treating maladies with life-threatening chemicals.” ...

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne.../25/fata-cancer-doctor-loses-appeal/84919016/

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

$8M settlement approved for 43 victims of convicted Detroit-area cancer doctor

Farid Fata gave unnecessary treatment to patients for insurance money

By Halston Herrera - Digital news editor

Posted: 10:50 AM, July 20, 2016
Updated: 12:46 PM, July 20, 2016

PONTIAC, Mich. - Dozens of civil cases involving a Detroit-area doctor who poisoned more than 500 patients through needless cancer treatments in order to collect millions from insurance companies have been settled.

The 43 cases that claimed malpractice and fraud civil cases against Farid Fata have settled for $8 million, according to the attorneys representing the victims...

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/status-conference-hearing-for-civil-cases-in-cancer-doctor-fraud

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...lawsuits-cancer-doctor-fata-settled/87340742/

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

CPAs will help Fata victims fill out claims forms

Oralandar Brand-Williams, The Detroit News 4:48 p.m. EDT August 29, 2016

Former patients and family members of those treated by convicted cancer doctor Farid Fata, whose malpractice and medical mistreatment that led to some being treated for cancer they did not have, are getting help filling out restitution claim forms.

U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade announced Monday at her downtown Detroit office that volunteer certified public accountants will help claimants fill out the forms beginning Sept. 6 at the Common Ground Resource and Crisis Center in Pontiac.

Appointments can be made starting Sept. 1 by calling the Fata Claims Call Center’s toll free number (877) 202-3282 beginning 3 p.m. Thursday...

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...08/29/fata-victims-help-claim-forms/89556894/

 

[JerseyGirl]

Convicted cancer doctor Fata seeks new trial

Convicted cancer doctor Fata seeks new trial

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Feds slam cancer doctor Fata's request for new trial

The U.S. government is slamming convicted cancer doctor Farid Fata's claims that he did not receive adequate legal counsel during his trial, saying it has proof that Fata pleaded guilty with full knowledge and understanding of what he was doing.

A federal judge in March agreed to conduct a hearing on Fata's request to set aside his guilty plea to health care fraud, money laundering and conspiracy to give or receive kickbacks in connection with a scheme to bilk millions from insurers by giving chemotherapy to patients who didn't have cancer...

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Cancer doc: I didn't understand guilty plea consequences

Ann Arbor — Dr. Farid Fata, sentenced to 45 years in prison for one of the largest health care frauds in U.S. history, testified Tuesday he did not know the consequences of his admission of guilt in 2014.

Fata, of Oakland Township, is seeking to withdraw guilty pleas related to allegations he prescribed chemotherapy to patients who did not require it, including perfectly healthy people, and submitted $34 million in fraudulent charges for six years.

He testified in U.S. District Court that he believed he would receive as much as 50% less jail time after providing federal officials with information about what he said was other health care fraud and national security issues.

Federal officials never expressed an interest in Fata’s statements...

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Judge adds $1.2 million to Fata restitution fund

The fund for former patients and family members victimized by the fraudulent treatment of convicted cancer doctor Farid Fata increased Friday when a judge ordered him to forfeit more than $1.2 million.

U.S. District Judge Paul Borman signed two forfeiture orders, for $1,091,062 and $170,432, from various financial accounts belonging to Fata, who was sentenced four years ago to 45 years in prison.

Fata pleaded guilty in connection with an expansive health care fraud in which he gave chemotherapy to patients who didn't have cancer while over-medicating others, bilking Blue Cross/Blue Shield and Medicare of about $34 million in the process...

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Cancer doc Fata won't leave prison early amid pandemic, judge says

Detroit — A federal judge Friday refused to reduce the 45-year sentence of disgraced cancer doctor Farid Fata, who sought compassionate release due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Fata, 55, of Rochester Hills, who prescribed chemotherapy to cancer-free patients, will remain at a South Carolina federal prison, U.S. District Judge Paul Borman wrote in an order after considering objections from victims and the government.

The oncologist/hematologist did not deserve to be released during the pandemic in a move that would have shortened his sentence by almost 40 years, the judge wrote...

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Cancer doctor’s victims get more than $4 million in restitution years after sentence

Detroit – More than $4 million has been distributed to hundreds of people who were victims of a Detroit-area doctor’s bogus diagnoses.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office said restitution from Farid Fata was recently completed for his former patients, five years after he was sentenced to 45 years in prison.

Fata poisoned patients through needless cancer treatments that wrecked their health and, in some cases, contributed to their death, according to the government. He pleaded guilty to fraud, money laundering and conspiracy in 2014...

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Appeals panel won't release cancer doctor Fata early, returns request to lower court

A federal appeals court said disgraced cancer doctor Farid Fata's request to re-examine a ruling that is keeping him in prison exceeded the time allowed to appeal and returned it to a lower court.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati said Thursday it is sending the request back to federal district court for it to "determine whether Fata can show excusable neglect or good cause warranting an extension of the (14-day) appeal period."...

 

[ilovewings]

Convicted cancer doctor Farid Fata loses second appeal of his conviction (detroitnews.com)

Dr Fata lost 2nd appeal of his conviction.

One can only hope he stays in prison until he is carried out in a pine box

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Former cancer doctor Fata again denied request for 'compassionate release' from prison (detroitnews.com)

Convicted former oncologist Farid Fata's latest appeal pursuing a release from prison or a sentence reduction on "compassionate" grounds has been dismissed by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Judges in the appellate federal court, located in Cincinnati, turned down Fata's appeal Thursday. Fata had appealed last year's denial by a judge in the Eastern District. High-profile inmates at both federal and state prisons have been requesting releases after the coronavirus was detected in the United States and in Michigan in mid-March...

If Dr. Fata had shown compassion for his patients, he wouldn't be in prison. He doesn't deserve "compassionate release".