(January 15, 2019, 2:55 PM EST) -- LONDON, Ky. — A federal judge in Kentucky on Dec. 20 denied a request for release pending appeal filed by a cardiologist that was convicted of health care fraud for implanting pacemakers in patients who did not need them and sentenced to 42 months in prison, finding that the doctor failed to adequately argue that the conviction would be likely be overturned (United States v. Anis Chalhoub, M.D., No. 16-cr-00023-GFHT-HAI, E.D. Ky., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 215680)....