Two Maryland physicians accused of attempting to help Russia by sharing patient medical records are set for retrial Nov. 27, CBS News reported Nov. 13.
The defendants — Anna Gabrielian, an anesthesiologist, and her spouse, Jamie Lee Henry, an Army physician, both of Rockville, Md. — are accused of participating in a conspiracy that involved giving confidential medical records to an undercover FBI agent posing as a Russian representative. At the time of the alleged conspiracy, Dr. Henry was a staff internist stationed at Fort Bragg, an installation of the Army in North Carolina. Dr. Gabrielian worked at an unnamed medical institution in Baltimore.
The couple allegedly offered to provide the undercover FBI agent with private medical records to assist Russia. Dr. Gabrielian provided the purported Russian representative with medical information related to two individuals, including the spouse of an employee of the Office of Naval Intelligence, and Dr. Henry provided medical information related to five individuals who were military veterans or related to military veterans, prosecutors allege.
Dr. Gabrielian and Dr. Henry were charged with conspiracy and for the disclosure of individually identifiable health information for each patient whose information they allegedly shared. Their original trial in June was declared a mistrial after a juror refused to convict, saying the government entrapped the couple.
If convicted, they face a maximum of five years in federal prison for the conspiracy and a maximum of 10 years in federal prison for each count of disclosing the health information.