Navy Hospital Employee Sentenced to Jail for Bribery

A former employee of Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Va., was sentenced to jail and ordered to pay restitution for bribery, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek article.

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Bryan W. Fox pleaded guilty in May to taking $26,000 in cash and gifts bribes from medical supply vendors and awarding them $625,000 in contracts He accepted bribes from July 2007 to June 2009 while on active duty with the Navy.

He has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and ordered to pay $265,963 in restitution.

Read the Bloomberg Businessweek article about the Virginia bribery sentence.

Read other coverage about healthcare fraud in Virginia:

Fraud Task Force Created for Virginia

Virginia Physician Convicted for Healthcare Fraud

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