{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Justice Impact Show","title":"Cleared by the Medical Board, Convicted by the Federal Government — Dr. Sanjeev Kumar","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5751,"description":"In February 2025, federal prosecutors announced charges against Memphis gynecologic oncologist Dr. Sanjeev Kumar in a press release the Justice Department has since retracted. The Travel Act counts that generated the headlines were dismissed. What remained were device and billing charges — and a jury convicted him on 40 of 46 counts. He was sentenced to 240 months. He reports to prison after an October 2 restitution hearing. JP Maroney and Stephen Keller sit down with him before he goes.\nFULL SHOW NOTES\nDr. Sanjeev Kumar is 45 years old, Mayo Clinic-trained in gynecologic oncology, and was sentenced on July 8, 2026 to 240 months in federal prison — twenty years — by Chief U.S. District Judge Sheryl H. Lipman. He is free on bond pending an October 2 restitution hearing, after which the court is expected to set a report date. He is appealing.\nThis episode was recorded five weeks before that hearing.\nJP Maroney and Stephen Keller — co-founder of the Justice Restoration Foundation and author of Pay to Play — spend just over an hour and a half walking Dr. Kumar through the whole arc: the practice he built in Memphis, the April 2024 FBI search, the arrest outside a hospital he was walking into to operate, the indictment, the trial, and the theory of the case that turned a gynecologic procedure into a federal sex offense allegation.\nWhat the record shows. A federal grand jury indicted Kumar in February 2025. Then-Acting U.S. Attorney Reagan Fondren announced the charges, which included enticing four victims to travel interstate to engage in illegal sexual activity under the Travel Act. The Justice Department's press release page for that announcement now carries a notice that the comments and quotations in its February 28, 2025 version have been retracted. The Associated Press reported on March 31, 2025 that Fondren had been fired by the White House.\nOn October 17, 2025, a federal judge dismissed 17 of the then-36 counts, including all four Travel Act counts — holding...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/nhl0jt9yc9bMTB_w4VRpw7Z_uzhEePkeYKE_stSpF8g/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82MTA0/ZTY5NzVmYzAxZTk2/YTUwMTcwYTBlMTAx/MDM4Yi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}