(July 31, 2023, 2:20 PM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — Ruling for the government in consolidated appeals involving whether certain fees were assets of a health care benefit program, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on July 28 issued an unpublished memorandum disposition that, among other things, upheld an order directing restitution to 706 victims who paid into the plan’s now-defunct trust....