The former co-owner of a defunct medical testing company, who failed to report to prison as directed last spring, was sentenced to an additional six months in prison. Richard Reid, 55, was convicted in March 2022, of five federal felonies connected to his scheme to profit from illegal kickbacks in the medical testing industry. In January 2023 he was sentenced to two years in prison. At the sentencing hearing on July 30, 2024, US District Judge John C. Coughenour said Reid’s persistent failure to accept responsibility “takes my breath away.” Reid had repeatedly petitioned the judge to delay his prison reporting date, claiming to have COVID-19 and then long COVID. Judge John C. Coughenour refused to delay the date past the end of April 2023. Rather than report to prison, Reid left his home in Astoria, Oregon and went on the run. The FBI issued a “Wanted” poster. On May 7, 2023, a member of the public reported seeing Reid, and he was arrested in Taylorsville, Oregon.
