A federal jury will resume today, Friday, their deliberations on whether Leyda I. Ada is guilty or not as to the conspiracy to commit money laundering, money laundering, and perjury.<\/p>\n
The jurors resumed their deliberations yesterday, but did not reach a verdict. They began their deliberations on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
At Wednesday\u2019s closing arguments, assistant U.S. attorney Garth Backe said the key issue in this case is Ada\u2019s knowledge in her husband Melvin\u2019s scheme to perpetrate healthcare fraud exceeding $1.7 million.<\/p>\n
Defense attorney Mark Hanson said in this case, since Ada is the wife of Melvin, she got to be guilty.<\/p>\n
Hanson said no person, even Ada, knew that Melvin was stealing close to $2 million from Finance, through the Commonwealth Health Center.<\/p>\n
The prosecution called a total of 31 witnesses in the trial that began last June 1.<\/p>\n
The defense called three witnesses.<\/p>\n
Ada used to be a sales representative for Midwest Medical Supply Co. Inc., a Missouri-based company that had supplied dialysis consumables and equipment to CHC.<\/p>\n
The original indictment charged the Ada couple with 59 counts.<\/p>\n
Melvin is a former employee of the Commonwealth Health Center. He pleaded guilty to 56 charges for misappropriating and diverting CNMI Treasury checks made payable to a medical supplier company totaling over $1.7 million. He is awaiting his sentencing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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