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Trial Begins In $1.9 Billion Fraud Case

03/24/2008 10:06:31




COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- In Columbus, defense lawyers are beginning their case today at the trial of a former health care executive accused of witness tampering.

The government charges that Lance Poulsen tried to bribe a witness into giving favorable testimony in a 1.9 billion dollar corporate fraud case. Prosecutors spent last week playing taped phone calls and meetings for a federal jury.    Poulsen's attorneys say investigators misunderstood what's on the tapes.    

The defendant is the founder and former chief executive of National Century Financial Enterprises, once described as the country's largest health care financing company.

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