Dr. Ihsaan al-Amin, also known as Robert O’Neil Robinson Jr., leaves the Joel W. Solomon federal building in this file photo.Three weeks ago a federal judge wasn’t happy with the progress of an alleged pill mill case headed to trial in December. On Friday she got some good news.
Defense attorney Rich Heinsman is representing Dr. Ihsaan al-Amin, who faces charges that include health care fraud, money laundering and operating a criminal enterprise after his arrest last May.
Heinsman’s legal staff was making glacial progress retrieving an estimated 500,000 digital records for 4,000 patients before the previous hearing.
At that same hearing, prosecutor John MacCoon told U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan K. Lee he thought that a technology liaison was handling the exchange of information.
Lee wasn’t pleased that after nearly a year Heinsman didn’t have evidence he needed for the pending trial in the “extended and complex case” and worried that it could delay the trial date.