November 21, 2012
A former operations facilities executive at New York-Presbyterian Hospital previously found guilty of conspiring to defraud the hospital has appealed his conviction and a prison sentence handed down by a New York federal court, according to a notice made public Wednesday.
October 17, 2012
Two former high-ranking employees of New York Presbyterian Hospital were sentenced to prison Wednesday in New York federal court, after pleading guilty to defrauding the hospital in a kickback scheme involving millions of dollars' worth of hospital contracts.
August 27, 2012
A New York federal judge refused Monday to free the president of two asbestos abatement companies while he appeals his four-year prison sentence for his role in a kickback scheme to defraud New York Presbyterian Hospital.
July 31, 2012
Two former high-ranking employees of New York Presbyterian Hospital pled guilty Tuesday to participating in a conspiracy to defraud the hospital in a kickback scheme to award millions of dollars' worth of asbestos abatement and construction contracts.
July 11, 2012
Two men received prison terms and three contractors were slapped with criminal fines for conspiring to defraud New York Presbyterian Hospital in a kickback scheme to award millions of dollars' worth of asbestos abatement and construction contracts, prosecutors said Tuesday.
June 29, 2012
A New York federal judge refused Thursday to grant a new trial to contractors and employees of New York Presbyterian Hospital convicted of illegally rigging bids at the medical center, saying there's no evidence prosecutors tried to derail testimony that might have helped the defense.
April 17, 2012
Federal prosecutors on Monday chided attorneys representing men convicted of conspiring to defraud New York Presbyterian Hospital, saying the defense team floated baseless theories of witness tampering in a desperate effort to win a new trial.
March 19, 2012
The three contractors and four men convicted in February of conspiring to defraud New York Presbyterian Hospital in a kickback scheme said Friday that they should have a new trial because the government squirreled away a key witness whose testimony would have damaged prosecutors' "smoking gun" evidence.
February 02, 2012
A New York jury on Thursday convicted three contractors and four men of conspiring to defraud New York Presbyterian Hospital in a kickback scheme to award millions of dollars' worth of asbestos abatement and construction contracts.
July 28, 2011
A New York federal judge ruled Thursday that two former New York Presbyterian Hospital facilities administrators will face two criminal trials instead of one over allegations that they took kickbacks in exchange for awarding more than $42 million in contracts.