No-fault automobile insurance fraud racketeer and stock boiler room ringleader Mikhail Zemlyansky was sentenced by a New York federal judge on Thursday to 15 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $ 29.6 million after a lengthy and often bitter hearing in which his defense counsel only grudgingly conceded his client’s guilt. Law360: acquitted

A doctor convicted of accepting kickbacks in exchange for patient referrals as part of an elaborate scheme defrauding federal health programs at Chicago’s Sacred Heart Hospital was sentenced to three months in prison Tuesday over prosecutors’ objections. Law360: acquitted