Judge Refuses To Reduce Heath Care Fraud Defendant's Sentence Due To COVID-19

Mealey's (June 22, 2020, 11:30 AM EDT) -- SAN DIEGO — A federal judge in California on June 19 refused to convert the remaining four months of a man's prison sentence to home confinement after he pleaded guilty to his involvement in a health care fraud scheme, finding that his diagnoses of being prediabetic and borderline obese do not meet the requirements of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention for increased risk of severe complications if he contracted COVID-19 (United States v. Fernando Valdes, No. 15cr2822-CAB, S.D. Calif., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 107797)....