The Supreme Court seemed unreceptive to the Biden administration’s arguments on Feb. 27 that a Texas man convicted of Medicaid fraud should also be convicted of aggravated identity theft arising out of the same transaction because a form he filed contained a patient’s name.
Several justices expressed concern that the government wants to interpret the Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act, which mandates a two-year prison sentence, so broadly that it could entangle potentially innocent individuals.
