Lawyer floats possible defense in Hertel & Brown case: Any overbilling was unintentional Lawyer for Aaron Hertel, a lead defendant, co-owner of Erie physical therapy practice, seeks evidence to ...

Hertel & Brown owners plead guilty to fraud in deals that call for prison terms of 6 years Aaron W. Hertel, 46, and Michael R. Brown, 48, pleaded guilty with their corporation in largest-ever ...

Aaron Hertel and Michael Brown are licensed physical therapists. Of the other 18 individual defendants, 17 are either licensed physical therapists or licensed physical therapy assistants ...

The lead defendants in the case are Hertel & Brown as a business and co-owners Aaron W. Hertel and Michael R. Brown. Along with 18 other employees, they are accused of conspiring to overbill Medicare, ...

Aaron W. Hertel, 46, and Michael R. Brown, 48, pleaded guilty with their corporation in the largest-ever prosecution of white-collar crime in Erie.

With 21 defendants, Hertel & Brown fraud case was one of biggest for U.S. District Court in Erie. ... Aaron Hertel, 44, and Michael R. Brown, 46, are the lead individual defendants.

The defense lawyers, in separate closing arguments of 45 minutes each, blamed the scheme on the business' supervisors, including its owners, Aaron W. Hertel and Michael R. Brown.

The U.S. Attorney's Office is alleging Hertel & Brown; Aaron Hertel, 45, and Michael Brown, 47; and the 18 other employees conspired to overcharge Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers $22 ...

The lead defendants — Hertel & Brown as a corporation and its founders, Aaron W. Hertel, 44, and Michael R. Brown, 46, as individuals — have less than a week to file their pretrial motions.

CW3 also indicated that Aaron Hertel and Michael Brown are fully aware that unlicensed aides are engaged in treating patients at HB." Minutes and money.

A trial date has yet to be set in the Hertel & Brown federal fraud case, but a judge has made clear that the largest-ever white-collar criminal prosecution in Erie will indeed go forward. U.S ...