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Las Vegas doctor convicted in deadly hepatitis C outbreak dies
By reviewjournal.com- David Ferrara
Published: 04/12/2017

The Las Vegas doctor convicted of murder and criminally neglecting patients in the city’s 2007 hepatitis C outbreak has died in prison.

Dipak Desai, 67, serving life in prison with the possibility of parole after 18 years for his conviction on 27 charges, including second-degree murder and insurance fraud, died Monday at Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, the Nevada Department of Corrections said Tuesday.

Even into his last days behind bars, Desai remained hopeful that he would prevail in overturning his criminal conviction, said his longtime attorney Richard Wright, who visited the once wealthy physician just before he died.

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