Anosh Ahmed, MD, former CFO and COO of Chicago-based Loretto Hospital, filed a June 9 motion to join co-defendants in seeking a dismissal of his federal indictment with prejudice for a COVID-19 testing fraud case.
The indictment, filed in June 2025, alleged Dr. Ahmed and co-defendants submitted approximately $894 million in false COVID-19 testing claims to the federal government, which resulted in roughly $293 million in fraudulent reimbursements.
Loretto Hospital was stripped of the first COVID-19 doses in March 2021, pending review, after the 122-bed acute care facility offered vaccinations to 72 restaurant, housekeeping and other hotel personnel at Trump Tower in Chicago, where Dr. Ahmed owned a condo. An April 2021 investigation by local news outlet Block Club Chicago and watchdog group Better Government Association revealed Loretto Hospital paid nearly $4 million in one year to three companies tied to Sameer Suhail, MD, a friend and business partner of Dr. Ahmed.
In July 2024, Dr. Ahmed, Heather Bergdahl, MD, who served as Loretto Hospital’s chief transformation officer and Dr. Suhail were indicted for their alleged involvement in a $15 million embezzlement scheme.
The dismissal motion, obtained by Becker’s, cited prosecutorial misconduct before the grand jury that returned the charges. Co-defendant Mahmood Khan, who was employed alongside co-defendant Suhaib Chaudhry by a Houston-area company that Dr. Ahmed created after his resignation, moved May 26 to dismiss the indictment.
Mr. Khan’s motion identified eight categories of alleged misconduct and established that the same grand jury that returned the indictment in this case also indicted defendants in a separate federal case, United States v. Rabbitt, et al, otherwise known as the “Broadview Six.” That case collapsed May 21 after a federal judge found prosecutors had committed grand jury misconduct, Block Club Chicago reported May 22.
The misconduct alleged “vouching,” or the promise of the existence of evidence to secure an indictment without actually presenting such evidence. Other alleged misconduct included inflammatory remarks about defendants, sharing information outside the grand jury record, building improper rapport with jurors and mischaracterization of both the law and evidence.
Dr. Ahmed’s motion also asked the court to order the government to produce the grand jury transcripts it shared with Mr. Khan and Mr. Chaudhry but has not yet provided to Dr. Ahmed’s counsel. The motion said Dr. Ahmed has been detained in Serbia while contesting extradition, which has limited his ability to consult directly with counsel and participate in the defense of his pending charges.
Becker’s has reached out to Dr. Ahmed’s attorneys and will update this story should more information become available.
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