Dr. Roy Shelburne received 2 years in prison (served 19 months) and Drs. Michael and Eddie DeRose got a football stadium.
Dr. Robin Lockwood received 18 months in prison – Dr. Chad Brandon Hoecker got a private jet, lavish lifestyle and near death experience.
Sixty year old, Dr. Walter Dawkins got a year and a day in jail, then 3 years probation – Dr. Richard Malouf got a sprawling mansion with a lazy river, water park and bowling lanes.
Money talks.
Dentist sentenced to year in prison for fraud
Published 3:15 am, Saturday, December 22, 2012
BENTON, IL (AP) — A southern Illinois dentist has been ordered to spend one year and a day in federal prison for defrauding Medicaid and illegally distributing a prescription painkiller.
Sixty-year-old Walter Dawkins of Fairfield was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Benton.
Dawkins pleaded guilty in September to felony counts of fraud involving a health-care program and unlawfully distributing the controlled substance hydrocodone.
Federal prosecutors say the offenses involved hundreds of prescriptions written outside the course of Dawkins' medical practice.
Dawkins also was sentenced to a $900 fine and three years of post-prison supervised release. He also must reimburse the Illinois Medicaid program.
