“He’s a wonderful doctor, and I will defend him vigorously,” William Bubsey, the attorney who represented the Ghanaian surgeon, said during Friday’s detention hearings.
He said it was still uncertain who will represent Dr deGraft-Johnson because the doctor does not have access to his assets.
Disputing the state’s allegations against his client, he said the surgeon’s remittances to Ghana was meant to help “the impoverished people of Ghana and not to enrich himself.”
Also indicted in the case was Kimberly Austin, the office manager of the Heart and Vascular Institute of Northern Florida owned and operated by Dr deGraft-Johnson.
Prosecutors said the two poached patients from a local hospital in which the vascular surgeon had access to medical records and other vital information.
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