Date: 07-30-2024

Case Style:

United States of America v. Richard Reid

Case Number: 2:23-cr-00188

Judge: John C. Coughenour

Court: The United States District Court for the Western District of Washington (King Coounty)

Plaintiff's Attorney: The United States Attorney’s Office in Seattle

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Seattle, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with failing to report to prison as directed
Convicted Health Care Fraud defendant sentenced to an additional six-month sentence for failing to report to prison as directed

The former co-owner of a defunct medical testing company, failed to report to prison as directed.

Richard Reid had repeatedly petitioned the judge to delay his prison reporting date, claiming to have COVID-19 and then long COVID. Judge John C. Coughenour refused to delay the date past the end of April 2023. Rather than report to prison, Reid left his home in Astoria, Oregon and went on the run. The FBI issued a “Wanted” poster.

On May 7, 2023, a member of the public reported seeing Reid, and he was arrested in Taylorsville, Oregon.

“Richard Reid refused to accept responsibility for his role in a healthcare kickbacks scheme, and then refused to serve the sentence imposed by the Court. He exploited the Court’s generosity in granting him two extensions of his reporting date, and simply ignored the Court’s rejection of this third request. Many hours of law enforcement resources were wasted in a multi-day fugitive investigation that ended with Reid being arrested in a bar.”

The activities of Bellevue-based Northwest Physicians Laboratory (NWPL) have been the subject of extensive civil and criminal litigation. Richard Reid was one of the owners and the Vice President of Sales for NWPL. Reid helped NWPL obtain more than $3.7 million in kickback payments by steering urine drug test specimens to two labs that could bill the government for testing.

The case was investigated by the FBI, Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS).

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Michael Dion

Outcome:

Defendant was found guilty and sentenced to an additional six months in prison

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