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Even the unique courtroom talents of F. Lee Bailey couldn’t get a Middleburg Heights doctor exonerated of charges that he bilked medical insurers out of $79,319 over a three-year period.
Dr. Dorian Vidu was convicted of insurance fraud and theft even though Bailey and other defense lawyers argued that the money represented only about three percent of the amount billed by the practice and was due to sloppy bookkeeping, not intentional fraud. The billings that the prosecution deemed fraudulent were, the defense team claimed, merely the result of a practice that had grown too fast and was wracked by chaos. The questioned billings were for procedures that were never performed or procedures that were performed but were overstated.
The trial took five weeks and the jury took two days to reach a guilty verdict. Vidu is scheduled to be sentenced late in November for seven counts of insurance fraud and eight theft charges. Bailey says he will appeal the ruling.
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