Acquitted Archives - Doctors of Courage

Muhamad Aly Rifai, MD acquitted

by Muhamad Rifai | May, Tue, 2024 | Acquitted | 7 comments

The ignorant encroachment on the practice of Psychiatry:The Case of the United States of America v Muhamad Aly Rifai, MD On November 8, 2022, the government of the United States of America indicted me on four counts of healthcare fraud. The counts involved four...

Injustice in Healthcare in America

by Barbara Marino | May, Mon, 2024 | Acquitted, healthcare reform | 0 comments

The United States currently has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, higher than all communist nations including China, Cuba, and North Korea. As of 2021, over 2,000,000 people are prisoners in the United States, which equates to over 25% of the world’s...

Chad Hall, DO Acquitted

by Linda Cheek, MD | Nov, Sat, 2022 | Acquitted | 7 comments

Chad Hall, DO, 43, of Las Vegas, NV was acquitted of all 19 charges against him on Nov 9, 2022. Interesting, though, that there is no news of this achievement in the media. There was notice of his indictment in June, 2019 and the mistrial called in August, 2022 from...

Two Doctors Acquitted in West Virginia–Krishan Aggarwal, MD and Cherian John, MD

by Linda Cheek, MD | Jun, Fri, 2019 | Acquitted | 4 comments

On Friday, June 14, 2019, after an eight-day trial, Dr. Krishan Kumar Aggarwal, 74 y/o internist and Dr. Cherian John, 66 y/o internist/cardiologist, were found not guilty of drug charges for their contractual work at an addiction treatment facility in Weirton, West...

Christopher R. Russo, MD

by Linda Cheek, MD | Dec, Sun, 2018 | Acquitted | 8 comments

Christopher Russo, MD, 50, of Birmingham, Michigan was charged Dec. 6 along with his 5 colleagues with one count health care fraud conspiracy and one count conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute controlled substances. He was also charged with...

Lawsuit by Larry Ley, MD Against DEA agents and the City

by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Wed, 2018 | Acquitted | 4 comments

Four doctors in Carmel, IN, a suburb of Indianapolis, have sued the city and government officials responsible for the illegal attack on their clinic, Drug Opiate & Recovery Network (DORN), an addiction center prescribing Suboxone, in July, 2014. The lawsuit asks...