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04-09-2011, 12:10 PM
Broke: Dr. Desai Victims Unlikely to Collect in Nevada Hepatitis C Outbreak


Before his current status as a revoked licensed physician and court ordered resident in the secured Lake Crossing psychiatric facility, Dr. Dipak Desai was making money hand over fist from the endoscopy centers he owned in the Las Vegas, Nevada area. Now, faced with hundreds of lawsuits in the Nevada Hepatitis C outbreak (http://lawmedconsultant.com/nevada-hepatitis-c-propofol-contamination-page), he says he is broke. Interesting fact: Desai served on the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners from 1993-2001.

From the Las Vegas Review Journal (http://www.lvrj.com/news/desai-faces-millions-in-legal-fees-in-hepatitis-c-case-119445244.html), By Jeff Garmin

Desai legal fees leave little for ex-patients


Dr. Dipak Desai, the bankrupt gastroenterologist at the heart of a hepatitis C outbreak, has piled up $2.4 million in legal fees that are cutting deep into the dwindling assets left for his creditors, including the thousands of former patients suing him.

In a written opinion this week, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Mike Nakagawa said

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deepz
04-09-2011, 04:21 PM
Broke, huh.

In the initial rush of publicity when the Vegas Hep C story broke, it was reported that Dr Desai had sent millions back to his accounts in India.