Mealey's ( January 24, 2023, 2:17 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals properly upheld a trial court’s aggravated identity theft conviction of a psychologist under a federal identity theft statute, the U.S. government tells the U.S. Supreme Court in a Jan. 23 respondent brief, contending that although the petitioner did not steal anything, he nevertheless used a patient’s identity to commit health care fraud, which constituted a direct violation of the statute....