Government Failed To Prove Woman’s Mens Rea In Fraud Suit, Panel Told

Mealey's (April 14, 2022, 1:43 PM EDT) -- ATLANTA —  Evidence produced at a trial for a compounding pharmacy’s sales manager was insufficient to sustain her conviction on conspiracy, health care and mail fraud and aggravated identity theft charges stemming from her involvement in a scheme to submit bills to insurance companies for medically unnecessary prescriptions for the compounding pharmacy’s drugs because government prosecutors “failed to prove the requisite mens rea” in pleading its claims against her, the sales manager argues in an April 13 appellant brief filed in the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals....