United States v. Hugh Willett

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• observing that “[a] defendant need not have actually submitted the fraudulent documenta- tion . . . in order to be guilty of health care fraud or conspiracy to commit health care fraud” (alterations in original) (citation omitted)
• finding the defendant’s “proximity to” and prominent role in “fraudulent activities” evidence of a culpable state of mind
• determining that a “position of authority” was probative of knowledge
• “[T]he fact that another employee also had supervisory authority does not negate the inference that can be drawn from [the defendant’s] role in the business.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).