Former ER doctor who signed bogus documents found guilty with 2 nurses in $13M health care fraud
Dr. Kelly Robinett was a semi-retired emergency room doctor with more than 30 years of experience who didn't want to see patients much anymore when he took a job for about $400 a week signing medical paperwork.
That decision cost him his livelihood, his reputation and quite possibly his freedom. The 70-year-old Carrollton man was convicted Friday of four fraud charges for his role in a $13 million home health care scam made possible by what prosecutors called his rubber stamp signature on fraudulent documents.
Jurors issued their verdict after several hours of deliberations following a weeklong trial before U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor in Dallas.
The jury also found Robinett's co-defendants — nurses Kingsley Nwanguma, 47, and Joy Ogwuegbu, 42 — guilty of health care fraud. Sentencing will be later.
Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2018/06/22/former-er-doctor-2-nurses-found-guilty-13-million-health-care-fraud
