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February 23, 2021 The Eleventh Circuit on Monday denied an appeal by a man found to have played a role in a conspiracy involving health care fraud and unlawfully dispensing controlled substances, affirming his original convictions and sentence.
The court explained that Arman Abovyan, a primary care physician, was an instrument in a conspiracy orchestrated by nonphysician Kenneth Chatman. Chatman, despite having no medical training, was operating two substance abuse facilities in South Florida and recruited Abovyan, despite him lacking substance abuse treatment expertise, to be medical director of the facilities.
Abovyan’s complicity, according to the court, was shown in his liberal propensity to order urine drug tests for patients, each costing between $1,000 and $6,000. He later admitted to the FBI that he was following Chatman’s orders to test every patient two or three times per week without regard to the patient’s specific background, and often
Since 2015,
police officers have fatally shot at least 135 unarmed Black
men and women nationwide, an NPR investigation has found.
NPR reviewed police, court and other records to examine the
details of the cases. At least 75% of the officers were
white. The latest one happened this month in Killeen, Texas,
when Patrick Warren Sr., 52, was fatally shot by an officer
responding to a mental health call.
For at
least 15 of the officers …, the shootings were not their
first or their last, NPR found. They have been involved
in two sometimes three or more shootings, often
deadly and without consequences.
In
fact: