Surgeon convicted of federal charges for accepting over $300,000 in illicit payments to perform spinal surgeries at corrupt hospital
An orthopedic surgeon has been found guilty by a federal jury of accepting more than $315,000 in bribes and kickbacks for performing spinal surgeries at a now-defunct Long Beach hospital whose owner was imprisoned for committing a massive workers’ compensation insurance fraud, the Justice Department announced. Dr. David Hobart Payne, …continue reading