After coping a plea back in February, Medical Mafia member Noel Gage was sentenced to probation yesterday. U.S. District Court Judge Quackenbush seemed to pity Gage, calling him "a good man who made a serious mistake." We wonder if the judge was talking about the "obstructing justice" mistake, or the (allegedly) "paying off doctors" mistake. Maybe it was the "going to law school" mistake.
Quackenbush imposed probation, stating that 72-year-old Gage would "'suffer" from the terms of his probation, likely facing suspension of his law license. Gage went down swinging though, from the RJ:
Since the inception of the case, Gage has maintained that he did nothing unethical or illegal. Had he sued Thalgott and Kabins, rather than Burkhead, the lawyer said after Thursday's hearing, "Melodie Simon would have gotten a big goose egg" and been responsible for the opposing parties' costs and attorney fees.Awwww. That Gage, always looking out for the interests of his clients. Now, State Bar, please take that man's law license.
"If I had to do it over again -- but for the wrongful prosecution -- I would have sued the same people, if I wanted to obtain the best result for my client," Gage told the Review-Journal.
(LVRJ)
Joseph, do you know anything about medical malpractice? It is a rough and tumble area of law. Your buddies at the US Attorneys office don't have a clue. Yes, the cases were rigged. But, not by the plaintiff's bar. You could not get doctors to testify if it hurt other doctors in town. That's why only the top trial lawyers, like Bob Vannah, were willing to take the risks involved in trying to recover for these unfortunate injured parties. I think Noel Gage did a magnificent job of getting his client a good settlement. However, he technically failed to turn over those checks to the government pursuant to the subpoena. For that, he is stupid. He had to know that they already had those checks. He said it was negligence, they said it was intentional. Jurors hate all lawyers, and that includes you and me. They may have found him guilty, and he took the risk out of that and cut a deal. What is all this "payoffs" of doctors crap you are talking about?
ReplyDeleteI'd like to take this opportunity to ask the ladies what they think of "the comb-over"? Be honest...a few of us fellas only have a couple more good years of turf up top. Should we go with the Noel Gage/Ernie McCraken dazzler?
ReplyDeletePost mortem on Medical Mafia:
ReplyDeleteU.S. Attorney never had its head around this investigation. Awand's goup was pretty cavalier at one time and there were some loose cannons. Notwithstanding all the protestations to the contrary, they were commiting crimes. The Feds got in late and never really got a handle on it.
So now can all the personal injury plaintiff and defense attorneys please just move on and realize that they all benefit from Las Vegas being a plaintiff-friendly jurisdiction?
Plaintiff friendly jurisdiction? Is that what you call two med mal plaintiffs' verdicts out of probably 50 in the last two years?
ReplyDeletere: the comb over.
ReplyDeleteNothing is as sexy as when the comb over begins to be ineffective and you resort to combing your bushy eyebrows up over your forehead.
what a joke.
ReplyDeleteNoel did a great job for his client. Defense attorneys pay their doctor/expert from San Diego to review medical documents and reach the same conclusion of no injury but that is an acceptable lie.
ReplyDeleteI love 9:21, who simply says they were "committing crimes," with no further comment to this conclusion. Who are yo? Why don't you very specifically tell us what crime was committed, by whom, and the name of the case. When I was a young attorney, like most of you, I tried to act like I was in the know. I wasn't, but like 9:21, unfortunately I was quick to condemn. Yeah, it is not very plaintiff friendly as far as medical malpractice. The statistics really prove that. That is why I think Gage did a good job for the client. Scheiss did a really good job, but if I could have people put in prison, I could be the best trial attorney in town. It's a lot easier to get money out of people if you have a "big hammer."
ReplyDelete^^^^^^=Ivy Gage
ReplyDeleteWell 4:40 - how about witness tampering, destruction of evidence, perjury, subbornation of perjury, and insurance fraud for starters?
ReplyDelete^^^^^=pwned
ReplyDeleteGage snowed Quackenbush good.
ReplyDeleteI am one of those plaintiffs who was actually was severely injured in a bike accident when a CAT bus ran over my leg. Most of the doctors mentioned in the Medical Mafia saw me and gave testimony. I have been to court twice and still fighting this case and the appeal is pending, July 2010. What help is there for the genuine cases of injury that get caught up in all this.
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