Social Worker Loses Appeal to Undo Health-Care Fraud Conviction

A Florida social worker convicted of health care fraud following a five-week trial in 2013 lost an appeal for habeas relief after the Eleventh Circuit rejected claims that she received ineffective assistance of counsel.

Daisy Miller, who was sentenced to 15 years following her convictions for conspiracy, fraud, and kickback offenses, argued that her trial counsel failed to call several witnesses who would have testified in her defense.

But there wasn’t a reasonable probability that the testimony from the witnesses would have changed the outcome. None of the potential witnesses would have been able to rebut the government’s evidence that ...