Mealey's (June 26, 2019, 1:05 PM EDT) -- BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A federal judge in Alabama ruled June 24 that a Nigerian woman cannot introduce evidence of cultural differences to support her defense that she was coerced and in a state of duress when she submitted fraudulent bills to Medicare and private insurers for allergen immunotherapy for patients when it was medically unnecessary, explaining that the defendant did not provide any examples of what evidence she would submit (United States v. Patrick Emeka Ifediba, et al., No. 18-cr-0103-RDP-JEO, N.D. Ala., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 104710)....