United States v. Vernon, No. 12-12767 (11th Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CaseDefendants were prosecuted for their involvement in health care fraud and violations of the Anti-Kickback laws regulating Alabama Medicaid. The prosecution involved "factor" medication, which was a special, expensive medication used to treat hemophilia, a blood clotting disease. The parties raised numerous challenges on appeal. The court affirmed the convictions of Jeff Vernon and Butch Brill after review of the extensive trial record and with the benefit of oral argument. The court vacated, however, the district court's Rule 29 acquittal of Chris Vernon on three counts and reversed the alternative award of a new trial, and remanded for reinstatement of the jury's guilty verdicts and sentencing on those counts.
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