Unrelenting weakness in joints and muscles.
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Federal prosecutor Catherine Dick had asked for a 175-year prison sentence, while Fata sought 25 years.
Prosecutors had asked for a sentence of 175 years in prison, likening Fata to a medical version of convicted Ponzi scammer Bernard Madoff and accusing him of bullying patients into unsafe treatments that underwrote an opulent lifestyle.
In the process Fata fraudulently made about 20 million dollars.
Fata, a married father of three and a naturalized US citizen whose native country is Lebanon, was charged with running the scheme that involved billing the government for medically unnecessary cancer and blood treatments. The patient reportedly died from his head injury. I don’t know how anyone could do something so terrible. At least 553 victims had been identified in addition to the insurance companies who were defrauded by Fata. “The quest for power is self destructive. I failed. Yes I failed.”, he said, according to Detroit Channel 4.
Dr. Farid Fata, 50, pleaded guilty previous year to fraud, money laundering and conspiracy charges. Patients hired a bus to get to court Monday.
Liz Lupo, second from left, shows a sign in honor of her mother, Marianne Lupo, a ex- patient of Dr. Farid Fata, outside federal court, Monday, July 6, 2015, in Detroit. I hate this man. Some may choose to forgive, I never can. You are a monster… You murdered my dad.
“And permitted this sin to enter me because of my abuse of power and greed”. “They had no idea how I was sitting in their office…”
“I pray for repentance and the right of redemption at some point in my life”.
Contacted after the sentencing, Karadsheh told NBC News, “I feel very sad for the victims, because they will go on feeling pain and suffering as a result of Fata long after the sentence is over”.
Fata did have his supporters, though.
“Our recommendation will give him nothing more than a chance for release before he dies”, Andreoff said.
In one case a patient received five years of chemotherapy treatments…instead of the standard six months. “They work by exploiting the difference between regular cells and cancer cells, which grow at a much more rapid pace”.
The federal court this week heard accounts of about 22 victims, who shared unthinkable experiences of a healthy adult undergoing chemotherapy and losing almost all his teeth, of a patient diagnosed with lung cancer when he had kidney cancer, and more. Normal cells that also reproduce quickly get caught in the crossfire of the powerful drugs.
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“There is an aggressive approach to treating cancer”. But that said, the drugs are extremely strong and need to be dosed with the utmost caution by a trained doctor. No prior investigation, she said, included “the kind of stunning physical harm that we saw in this case”.
