ST. LOUIS – A Clayton chiropractor convicted of healthcare fraud and sentenced to prison is now claiming he was also the victim of fraud, according to a newly filed sentencing memo.
Jerry Leech was sentenced to 100 months in prison and ordered to pay $4.7 million in restitution to Medicaid, Medicare and TRICARE for his role in a scheme involving controlled substances and illegal kickbacks. Federal prosecutors said the case involved doctors prescribing oxycodone without a legitimate medical purpose. In a related scheme, those same doctors sent urine samples to a specific lab in exchange for financial kickbacks.
“94,000 opioid tablets or opioid doses were put into our community through this crime,” said Tom Albus, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri. “The other side is protecting the integrity of the program because the taxpayers paid for all of this. They paid for his kickback scheme.”
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“There’s a lot of money involved in this case, but it’s really not that complex,” said defense attorney John Stobbs. “There’s the fact that it’s billing Medicaid and the government, and on some levels, it was just street drug dealing.”…