Karadesheh was an office manager at Dr. Farid Fata's Crittenton Cancer Center in Rochester Hills, Michigan. He told the news organization that he began to grew suspicious because staffers kept leaving the practice. He said that when one oncologist was quitting, he learned from him that the reason was because Fata was giving chemotherapy to people who didn't need it.

"It was so difficult to believe," Karadsheh told the news organization. "Here is a physician whose background is second to none in Michigan... I had never had a patient complain that there was a problem with a reaction to a drug or whether it was necessary."


Karadsheh took what he learned to the U.S. Department of Justice in 2013. On August 6, 2013, the FBI busted Fata and seized control of the Crittenton Cancer Center.

Despite his heroic efforts, Karadsheh, now greatly relieved that Fata can no longer do harm, confessed, "I'm also very sad because I feel the patients endured pain and suffering that's going to last far longer than the sentence that was imposed upon Dr. Fada."

The criminal case is likely just the start for the victims, according to NBC News.

U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade of the Eastern District of Michigan said this scheme is "the most serious fraud case in the history of the country." No prior one, according to the attorney, perpetrated "the kind of stunning physical harm that we saw in this case."

The victims, along with Karadsheh, will be entitled to share in forfeiture proceeds from Fata, she noted.

But they are also looking for more, through civil actions.

"Our case," a lawyer representing several victims told NBC News, "is just beginning."

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