Before joining Burr & Forman, I was a federal prosecutor for a little over a decade focusing on health care fraud and general white collar matters. In that role, I was a member of a prosecution team that secured guilty verdicts in March of this year against two pain management doctors in Mobile, Alabama following a nearly two month long trial. The doctors were convicted of a litany of felony crimes arising from their operation of a pain management clinic (Physicians Pain Specialists of Alabama or “PPSA”), including conspiracy to violate the anti racketeering act, conspiracy to violate the Controlled Substances Act, illegal distribution of controlled substances, money laundering, and receipt of illegal kickbacks. The doctors received substantial prison sentences of 20 and 21 years, respectively, forfeited virtually all of their personal assets to the government, and were ordered to pay a $5 million dollar money judgment – in addition to $15 million in restitution to various private and public health insurers.