Doctor Unsuccessfully Claimed he Was A “Patsy” Who Was Talked Into Helping A Criminal

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After convictions and sentences for healthcare fraud, conspiring to to dispense controlled substances, and seven counts of unlawfully dispensing a controlled substance. In United States Of America v. Arman Abovyan, No. 19-10676, USCA 11TH (February 22, 2021) he asked the Eleventh Circuit to let him go free to practice medicine.

ZALMA OPINION

Professionals, like Dr. Aboyyan, will usually claim to be innocent dupes of the criminals, like Chatman, who created the insurance fraud scheme. In reality, Dr. Aboyyan was happy to take $11,000 a month for little or no work. He knew it was wrong, he knew his actions were criminal, he knew he was participating in a fraud and admitted that to the FBI and an investigator for one of the insurers that he defrauded. He used his ill-gotten gains to pay lawyers to file an excessive and detailed appeal that required over 51 pages of opinion for the Eleventh Circuit to affirm his conviction. He will find time to reconsider his a criminal conduct as he sits alone in the gray bar hotel.