Post by Logan on Jun 8, 2016 23:01:04 GMT -6
Doctor gets prison term for taking $100K in bribes, Bieber tickets from N.J. blood lab
A New York doctor was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison for taking $100,000 in bribes, plus tickets to concerts and sporting events, in exchange for referring patient blood tests to a New Jersey lab.
“You forgot the oath you took when you became a doctor,” U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler told Bret Ostrager, 51, of Woodbury, N.Y. before imposing a 37-month prison term and $30,000 fine. “It wasn’t an oath to make as much money as you can.”
Calling it an “anomaly,” Chesler said Ostrager had a successful family practice and a $900,000 home in Nassau County, Long Island, made a quarter of a million dollars in some years and was “reaping all the rewards of being a highly successful professional” aspiring to realize the American Dream.
Yet, Ostrager threw it all away for money he didn’t need, the judge said, adding, “I feel sorry for you.”
Read more: www.northjersey.com/news/doctor-gets-prison-term-for-taking-100k-in-bribes-bieber-tickets-from-n-j-blood-lab-1.1612468
A New York doctor was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison for taking $100,000 in bribes, plus tickets to concerts and sporting events, in exchange for referring patient blood tests to a New Jersey lab.
“You forgot the oath you took when you became a doctor,” U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler told Bret Ostrager, 51, of Woodbury, N.Y. before imposing a 37-month prison term and $30,000 fine. “It wasn’t an oath to make as much money as you can.”
Calling it an “anomaly,” Chesler said Ostrager had a successful family practice and a $900,000 home in Nassau County, Long Island, made a quarter of a million dollars in some years and was “reaping all the rewards of being a highly successful professional” aspiring to realize the American Dream.
Yet, Ostrager threw it all away for money he didn’t need, the judge said, adding, “I feel sorry for you.”
Read more: www.northjersey.com/news/doctor-gets-prison-term-for-taking-100k-in-bribes-bieber-tickets-from-n-j-blood-lab-1.1612468