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Virginia doctor faces up to 465 years for fraud, performing unneeded surgeries

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The Justice Department said in a statement Monday that a federal jury convicted Javaid Perwaiz on 52 counts related to his defrauding of health insurance programs and falsely telling his patients they needed surgeries.

The Chesapeake doctor had pleaded not guilty. He could face up to 465 years in prison. Sentencing is scheduled next March 31. “Dr.

Perwaiz preyed upon his trusting patients and committed horrible crimes to feed his greed,” said G. Zachary Terwilliger, U.S.

attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Dr. Javaid Perwaiz (Western Tidewater Regional Jail via AP) Federal prosecutors said last year that many of the procedures Perwaiz performed were unwanted and that 173 women had come forward since his arrest to report similar.

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