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Chiropractor convicted, but no fraud verdict
By Patrick Howington
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The Courier-Journal
Dr. Paul Hollern, who once ran a
chiropractor-training empire from Louisville, was
convicted today of illegal eavesdropping for
videotaping patients without their knowledge.
But the jury could not reach a verdict on a
charge of health-care fraud, the main offense
alleged against Hollern. Prosecutors maintained
he taught young chiropractors to sell patients on
unnecessary services by lying about X-rays.
Jurors in U.S. District Court also deadlocked on
whether Hollern retaliated against a
whistle-blowing witness by telling his neighbors
he was involved in child pornography.
They acquitted him on a fourth charge, violating a patient-privacy law.
The charges stemmed from the operation of Uncle
Paul Chiropractic Business Training, a business
Hollern operated in southern Louisville that was
attended by young chiropractors from around the country.
Doctors videotaped their meetings with patients
and reviewed the tapes later to critique their
performance — or, as the prosecution termed it, their sales techniques.
Hollern, who no longer practices, faces up to
five years in prison on the electronic eavesdropping charge.
He said the juryÂ’s failure to convict him of the
fraud charge “shows that there’s nothing there.”
He has said the charges stem from a vendetta by a
disgruntled former employee who lied to
investigators about his training program.
Hollern remained free on bond after todayÂ’s
verdict. Judge Charles R. Simpson III said he
would not sentence him until prosecutors decide
whether to retry the two counts that deadlocked the jury.
Following a three-week trial, the jury
deliberated for three days before telling Simpson
they could not decide the two counts.
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