A federal grand jury has indicted a urologist and a lawyer with ties to San Antonio and McAllen on charges related to health care fraud and violating a U.S. embargo with Iran. The San Antonio Express-News first reported in December 2010 on Hossein Lahiji and his wife, attorney Najmeh Vahid Lahiji, when they were arrested in San Antonio in a separate case charging they secretly sent more than $1.8 million to Iran over nine years with the help of the founder of an Oregon charity. That, prosecutors contend, violates the U.S. embargo on the Middle East country. The U.S. has had a trade embargo against Iran since 1995 because it's considered a state sponsor of terrorism. Lahiji, a naturalized...
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