(ProMed), which he had registered in the name of his wife. Despite having no involvement with ProMed and performing no work, Davis’ wife and ProMed received over $770,000 in illegal kickbacks. Together, Davis and Montgomery pocketed over $2.4 million dollars in improper reimbursement from Medicare. Davis used company funds from CPS to pay bonuses to CPS providers who ordered DME for Medicare beneficiaries and referred those orders to CCC Medical. Davis would receive 60 percent of the Medicare profit from those referrals, while the company he ran footed the bill.

Evidence at trial also showed that in April and May of 2015, concerned about the size of the kickback payments CCC Medical was making to Davis, he and Montgomery concocted the sham sale of ProMed. ProMed had no assets,Blaine Harden is former East Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa bureau chief for the Washington Post and author of Escape From Camp 14. This article is excerpted from his new book, The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and the Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom, published March 17, 2015, by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

I t was September 21, 1953, just seven weeks after an armistice had ended the Korean War. Joseph Stalin was dead, and the Soviet Union had finally stopped its secret support of the North Koreans in the conflict. President Dwight Eisenhower was desperate to hold together the fragile peace that had halted