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City Hospital Scandal Unfolds: Four Indicted for Mail and Wire Fraud
A shocking indictment has been returned against four individuals and three corporations for participating in mail and wire fraud conspiracies at New York Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH), a federal grand jury in New York City announced.
The indictment charges Michael Yaron, Moshe Buchnik, Emilio “Tony” Figueroa, and Santo Saglimbeni with engaging in wire and mail fraud conspiracies to defraud NYPH. Also indicted are Cambridge Environmental & Construction Corp., which does business as National Environmental Associates (Cambridge/NEA), an asbestos abatement company, Oxford Construction & Development Corp., a construction company, and Artech Corp., a company owned by a relative of Santo Saglimbeni.
According to the indictment, from at least as early as 2000 and continuing through at least January 2008, Santo Saglimbeni awarded asbestos abatement contracts, air monitoring contracts, and general construction contracts to Yaron, Buchnik, their companies, Cambridge/NEA and Oxford, and to their co-conspirators, at the same time that Saglimbeni was asking for and receiving cash kickbacks from Yaron and Buchnik. A substantial portion of those kickbacks were funneled by Yaron and Buchnik through various intermediary companies, and eventually to Saglimbeni through Artech, a company Saglimbeni created in a family member’s name to conceal kickbacks.
The indictment further charges that between at least as early as June 2001 and June 2006, Saglimbeni, Figueroa, and their co-conspirators engaged in a mail fraud conspiracy, in which Saglimbeni and Figueroa awarded contracts for the installation and repair of the Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning Systems (HVAC) at NYPH to a co-conspirator’s company in return for cash kickbacks and other valuable gifts given to Saglimbeni and Figueroa by that co-conspirator.
The individuals charged with mail and wire fraud each carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine. The maximum fine for the charges may be increased to twice the gain derived from the crime or twice the loss suffered by the victims of the crime, if either of those amounts is greater than the statutory maximum fine.
The indictment also seeks the forfeiture of certain assets as they relate to the kickbacks received in connection with the mail fraud charges in the indictment.
The charges announced today resulted from an ongoing federal antitrust investigation of bid rigging, fraud, bribery, and tax-related offenses relating to construction, maintenance, and service contracts administered by the Engineering Department of Mount Sinai Medical Center and School of Medicine (Mount Sinai) and the Facilities Operations Department and the Engineering Department of NYPH. To date, eight individuals and three companies have pleaded guilty to charges arising out of this ongoing investigation.
Key Facts
- State: New York
- Category: White Collar Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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