Alqsous also gave Hills access to a Warehouse District apartment to use with one of his girlfriends and even purchased furniture after Hills made a request, authorities said.
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While Hills ran schemes of his own, a few MetroHealth dentists paid him kickbacks in exchange for bonuses and referrals of hospital patients to private clinics in which they had financial interests, prosecutors said. Hills also allowed MetroHealth dentists to work at one of the clinics on hospital time.Īlqsous, Al-Madani and others also bribed Hills with airplane tickets, a $3,700 Louis Vuitton briefcase, a 55-inch TV and prescription medication. He left the hospital in December 2014, amid the federal investigation. Hills also served as the hospital’s interim chief executive officer for about six months. He worked his way up from dental resident, chaired the oral health department and eventually served as the hospital’s chief operating officer.
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Prosecutors at trial laid out seven schemes carried out by some or all of the dentists.Īt the center of almost all the schemes was Hills, a 57-year-old Aurora resident hired by MetroHealth in 1993. The quartet was arrested in October 2016 following an FBI-led investigation into the county hospital’s Department of Oral Health and Dentistry that lasted more than two years. Alqsous loves his profession, loves his patients and is heartbroken,” Klammer continued. Randy Klammer, Alqsous’ attorney, said that “the jury had to apply law that was incredibly broad and encompassing, making it terribly difficult for these defendants to show their story. Lawyers for Hills, Al-Madani and Sayegh did not immediately return messages seeking comment. “Their egregious, offensive behavior lasted nearly a decade and now they will be held accountable for their actions.”
Attorney Justin Herdman said in a statement. “These defendants ripped off taxpayers and betrayed the community’s trust when they accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and other bribes,” U.S. They each face a maximum of 20 years in federal prison. Marshals Service to take the quartet into custody. Their sentencing is scheduled for Nov.
District Judge Sara Lioi ordered the U.S. The jury began deliberating Wednesday and finished Friday afternoon. Some evidence had a salacious spin, as prosecutors detailed kickbacks the dentists, who all emigrated from Jordan, gave to Hills for him and his girlfriends. Attorney’s Office said all four received kickbacks, while the dentists also paid Hills in exchange for bonuses and steering business in their directions. The verdict came following a weeks-long corruption trial in the federal courthouse in Akron in which jurors were inundated with records and witnesses detailing kickbacks and schemes that prosecutors said enriched all the defendants, often while using MetroHealth resources. Al-Madani was also found not guilty of four mail fraud charges. Jurors found Alqsous not guilty of certain bribery and mail fraud charges, but he was convicted of bribery conspiracy charges. The jury returned guilty verdicts on dozens of charges against Edward Hills and former MetroHealth dentists Sari Alqsous, Yazan Al-Madani and Tariq Sayegh, including racketeering, conspiracy, mail fraud, bribery, receipt of kickbacks and obstruction of justice.
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Jury convicts former MetroHealth executive, dentists in racketeering trialĪKRON, Ohio - A former MetroHealth System executive and three dentists were found guilty of federal charges Friday for participating in a series of schemes that defrauded the Cuyahoga County hospital.
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