United States v. Chris Vernon

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the bona fide employee safe harbor under the Anti-Kickback Statute is an affirmative defense
• holding that the jury reasonably rejected the safe-harbor affirmative defense
• explaining that no provision of the Anti-Kickback Statute is “limited to payments to physicians”
• noting that “when the circumstances surrounding a person’s presence at the scene of conspiratorial activity are so obvious ... knowledge of its character can fairly be attributed to him” (internal quotations omitted)
• defining willfully as an act “committed voluntarily and purposely, with the specific intent to do something the law forbids”
• reviewing for plain error unpreserved challenges to an indictment and affirming convictions where, even if plain error had occurred, defendant failed to prove prejudice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).