Mealey's (July 14, 2020, 10:30 AM EDT) -- DETROIT — A former oncologist who is serving a 45-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to submitting false bills to Medicare and other insurers for cancer treatments that were medically unnecessary or not provided should not be given compassionate release based on his age, his diagnoses of type-2 diabetes and diabetic neuropathy and the COVID-19 pandemic because they are not compelling reasons, a federal judge in Michigan ruled July 10 (United States v. Farid Fata, No. 13-cr-20600, E.D. Mich., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 121361)....