Covid Ate My Homework Wont Keep You Out of Jail

Published: Oct. 7, 2021, 7 a.m.

b'Maybe those excuses worked in fourth grade, and maybe Samirkumar J. Shah, M.D. should have tried them, but the one he went with, \\u201cI can\\u2019t show up at my sentencing for health care fraud because my doctor says I need to rest at home following a Covid vaccine reaction,\\u201d didn\\u2019t impress United States District Judge David S. Cercone.'