Fata was originally held on $170,000 bond, but after federal authorities found evidence that Fata and his wife had assets of $9 million not yet seized and worried that the high liquidity of these assets could make him a high flight risk, they persuaded federal judge Sean Cox to raise his bond to $9 million.[11][12] He was confined to jail pending trial; had he been released, he would have been confined to his home in Oakland Township and barred from practicing medicine.[13]