Area cancer doctor sentenced to 45 years in prison

While sentencing Fata – who had sought 25 years – U.S. District Judge Paul Borman said that Fata “shut down whatever compassion he had as a doctor and switched it to making money” and called his actions “huge, horrific series of criminal acts”, the Associated Press (AP) reported.

Prosecutors say doctor Farid Fata either over-treated terminal cancer patients, misdiagnosed healthy people or under-treated actual cancer patients. Sobieray said he lost all his teeth, but the chemotherapy bills were so hefty that he can not afford to have a new set of teeth.

Loewen said 45 years is a poor deterrent to other bad doctors. His stay in the federal prison system also could be shortened with good behavior. He then turned to the families of his victims and apologized, which he admitted wasn’t enough.

“There is not way to quantify the suffering”, she said.

As for Fata’s tears, Flagg said: “It was just a show”. “No matter what happens, nobody wins in this situation”. I could hear him talking to her and promising her to save her. Reporter: The toll lifelong damage. Devastating consequences. I twitch all the time. Some of Fata’s patients were on end-of-life care at hospice when he put them back on chemotherapy drugs. All the week in the court, he was stone faced and had begged the judge for mercy on Friday. I misused my talents. and permitted this sin to enter me because of power and greed. “My quest for power is self-destructive”.

“I pray for repentance and the right of redemption at some point in my life”.

The victims, along with Karadsheh, will be entitled to share in forfeiture proceeds from Fata, McQuade said.

A Detroit doctor who was dubbed by authorities as the most offensive fraudster in the history of the country has been sentenced 45 years in prison. “And that is because of the harm”.

Dr. Farid Fata, 50, pleaded guilty in September to 13 counts of Medicare fraud, one count of conspiracy to pay or receive kickbacks and two counts of money laundering.

“My role…is to impose a sentence sufficient but not greater than necessary”, Borman said Friday morning.

The whistleblowers who sparked the investigation are also be entitled to some of the cash, McQuade said.

Prosecutors and victims said Fata deserved to die in prison.

Fata was convicted for often prescribing treatments for cancer to patients who didn’t have it. So far, at least 553 victims had been identified. With this, he’s able to collect more than $15 million from private insurance and Medicare, which he had to forfeit.

The prosecution had called for the maximum 175-year sentence.

His victims, many of whom wore bright yellow to the sentencing to symbolize the last day Fata would see the sun, remained quiet in the courtroom, saving their reaction for after the hearing. “Why, why me? I don’t know what did I ever do to him”. I’m feeling like I’m standing up for my husband.

“He has lost his family”.

Borman noted that the Rochester-based doctor provided 2,770 unnecessary chemotherapy treatments to 100 patients, according to a medical expert’s review of those patients’ medical files.