Lee County Dentist Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison

ABINGDON, Va. - A federal district judge this afternoon sentenced a Lee County, Va., dentist to two years in prison for three felony convictions of racketeering, defrauding Medicaid and structuring a financial transaction.
Judge James P. Jones sentenced Roy Shelburne to two years for each of the felony counts, which will run concurrently. Shelburne was also fined $75,000, and must pay nearly $18,000 in restitution to state Medicaid.
The sentence comes a week after the judge threw out all seven of Shelburne’s convictions for money laundering, based on a recent interpretation of the statute by the U.S. Supreme Court. Previously, Shelburne had faced up 120 years in prison and a $1.25 million fine.
Read tomorrow’s Bristol Herald Courier for a more in-depth look at the sentence and a recap of the case.