Jailed Ex-Doc Admits Plot to Kill Houston Prosecutor
A former Houston gastroenterologist jailed for insurance fraud has been sentenced to an extra year in prison for plotting to kill the prosecutor in the case.
Ira Klein pleaded guilty to plotting to kill Assistant U.S. Attorney Samuel Louis, the Houston Chronicle reports. Klein had asked a fellow inmate to have the prosecutor run over by an 18-wheeler to “make him like a pancake,” the Associated Press reports.
Before his conviction, Klein had obtained four patents for drugs to treat hepatitis C. Klein was found guilty of charging insurance companies $10 million for work he didn’t perform.
Klein had also been charged with plotting to kill his sixth wife and to throw acid in the face of an FBI agent, but the government dropped those charges as part of the plea deal in the Louis plot.
