HealthSouth Figure’s Sentence Voided Again
A U.S. appeals court for the second time threw out a prison sentence for former HealthSouth Corp. finance chief Michael Martin, calling the penalty too lenient for his role in a $2.7-billion fraud at the Birmingham, Ala., rehabilitation hospital company.
The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta reassigned Martin’s case to a new judge. The three-judge panel criticized Chief U.S. District Judge U.W. Clemon’s initial decision to sentence Martin to five years’ probation, and then to one week in jail after his first reversal by the court.
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