Ex-Pasadena hospital official sentenced for kickback scheme
LOS ANGELES -- A former executive at Pasadena's Huntington Memorial Hospital has been sentenced to three years in prison for orchestrating a kickback scheme that prosecutors say cost the hospital nearly $5 million.
The U.S. attorney's office says 55-year-old David Hamedany was sentenced Tuesday in Los Angeles and ordered to pay $4.8 million in restitution. He had pleaded guilty in May to two counts of mail fraud.
Hamedany served as the hospital's director of construction from 2006 to 2010. Beginning in
2008, prosecutors say, Hamedany orchestrated a billing and kickback scheme that resulted in the hospital paying more than $3 million to companies for work that was never done at the hospital.
Prosecutors say Hamedany also entered into inflated contracts with companies that performed services for the hospital.
- From the Associated Press
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