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Sherman Jury Rejects Feds’ Criminal Wage-Fixing Claim in Home-Health Case

In what is believed to be the federal government’s first criminal case alleging wage fixing, the former owner of a Dallas-area home health-staffing company was acquitted Thursday of conspiring with competitors to hold down the hourly rates paid to physical therapists and their assistants for home visits to Medicare patients.

A jury in the Sherman court of U.S. District Judge Amos L. Mazzant III found Neeraj Jindal of Flower Mound not guilty on three of four counts in a 2021 federal indictment.

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