It's being reported this morning by KLTV TV in Tyler that the trial of the former owner of Shelby Regional Medical Center, Tariq Mahmood, will go to the jury in just hours.
Mahmood's charged with seven counts of health care fraud and a conspiracy charge for defrauding Medicare by submitting over a million dollars in bogus claims for his troubled hospital chain. He could face more than two decades in prison if convicted on all 15 fraud charges.
The trial is being held in Tyler Federal Court.