DETROIT (AP) - The federal government said it’s not willing yet to release a Detroit-area man who fears he could catch the coronavirus while serving a prison sentence for health care fraud.
U.S. District Judge Arthur Tarnow said Rajesh Doshi isn’t a threat to the public. He recommended that Doshi serve the balance of his sentence in home confinement.
Doshi, 64, has been in a federal prison in West Virginia since 2018 and isn’t due to be released until late 2023. His lawyer had argued that Doshi would be at “grave risk” for death if he gets the virus because of other health conditions such as diabetes and hypertension.
“Doshi is not being granted home confinement at this time,” Justice Department attorney Kathleen Cooperstein said in a court filing Friday.
But she said the Bureau of Prisons still is reviewing inmates for home confinement by considering age, health, conduct in prison and their crime. Doshi and others were convicted of a multimillion-dollar Medicare fraud.
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