California Doctor Indicted in $150M Insurance Fraud Not in Custody, D.A. Says
Los Angeles prosecutors say the doctor who orchestrated a $150 million insurance fraud scheme and allowed his assistant to perform surgeries is not in custody in Germany as they had previously reported.
A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles district attorney on Tuesday offered no explanation for the discrepancy and wouldn’t say if authorities knew where Dr. Munir Uwaydah was.
A lawyer who previously represented the doctor had disputed that he was in custody, though he wouldn’t reveal how he knew that.
Prosecutors say Uwaydah’s scheme was originally investigated as a possible motive in the killing of a former girlfriend, though the doctor wasn’t charged in that case.