Kohli Sentencing Hearing Again Continued

The sentencing hearing for Effingham physician Naaem Kohli has again been continued.

The hearing for the 60-year-old Kohli is now scheduled for 1:30pm on August 24. The hearing had been scheduled for today.

Kohli was found guilty in US District Court in Benton in January of seven counts of illegal dispensation of controlled substance. Kohli faces up to 20 years in prison on each of the seven counts.

A jury found Kohli guilty of writing prescriptions out of Kohli Neurology and Sleep Center in Effingham for Schedule II controlled substances including Oxycodone and Hydromorphone. There were no convictions on additional counts of defrauding health care benefit programs and money laundering.