As verdict nears, man goes on lam…for a day | Sacramento Bee | 6.23.04
Jordan Rosenberg finally ran out of time and nerve. …
Indicted by a federal grand jury in October 2000, he waged a fierce fight against Medicare fraud charges. …
Throughout a 10-day trial spread over four weeks, Rosenberg exuded confidence. The fact that he flunked out of law school after the second year did not deter him from relieving Gilbert Eisenberg as his trial lawyer, donning a three-piece suit and defending himself. …
“I’m very persuasive,” he assured the jury in his closing argument last week. …
“We all know I’m a very bright guy. The government just told you that,” he boasted in the argument. …
After the verdict, jurors expressed resentment at Rosenberg’s cockiness. …
Rosenberg billed Medicare more than $1.3 million for psychological counseling and other services allegedly provided between 1996 and 1999 to 170 developmentally disabled persons living in group homes in Northern California. He was paid more than $322,000 on the claims. …
To facilitate the formation of those companies and hide the scam, according to court papers, Rosenberg misappropriated the identity of a U.S. soldier named David Barnaby who was killed in action in 1967 in Vietnam.
Pointing at Rosenberg during his closing argument, Twiss told the jury, “I will show you David Barnaby. He is seated right over there.
“I will show you a crook. He is seated right over there.”
On average, this clinical psychologist billed Medicare more than $7,500 per person and collected almost $1,900 per person on 170 developmentally disabled persons and stole the identity of a Vietnam KIA… August 31st comes sentencing and hopefully the scale will peg with the opposing weight!
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