Man pleads guilty to fraudulent medical ‘tricorder’ scheme

In the 1960s science fiction television series Star Trek, a medical “tricorder” was used by Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy to diagnose diseases and collect bodily information about a patient. Now, an Illinois man is in legal hot water, facing charges in a $25 million fraud scheme for peddling a nonexistent telemedicine computer tablet named after the fictional McCoy character.

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