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Doctor sentenced for Medicare claims
A federal judge yesterday sentenced a prominent longtime District-based AIDS doctor to five months in prison for a scam that netted him more than $150,000 in phony Medicare claims.
Larry Bruni, 55, claimed he injected a blood thinner called Reteplase into one patient more than 100 times, according to court records. It almost always is given just once to heart-attack victims.
Prosecutors said that easily would have killed the patient, but investigators later determined the claims were bogus.
Bruni, one of the District's leading AIDS doctors in the 1980s, also ordered his two Afghan hounds to bite investigators when they arrived at his home in upstate New York in 2005 to seize his computer.
U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton also ordered Bruni to pay $154,832 in restitution and serve three years of probation.
Prosecutors said the fraud happened from October 2001 to March 2003.
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