Lab owner pleads guilty in $300 million coronavirus testing scheme tied to ex-Loretto Hospital executive

A lab owner pleaded guilty Wednesday to bilking the federal government out of hundreds of millions of dollars as part of a coronavirus testing scheme tied to former Loretto Hospital financial officer Anosh Ahmed. Mohamed Sirajudeen, 53, from Chicago, is the first person convicted in the two pending criminal cases involving Ahmed. Charges were previously dropped against two of their co-defendants in the testing scheme amid allegations of prosecutorial misconduct that surfaced when the "Broadview…