Saddle Brook Doctor Convicted In Multi-Million Dollar Anti-Kickback Scheme

SADDLE BROOK, N.J. — A family physician was convicted Monday on 10 counts brought before him in a $100 million test referral scheme, authorities said.

The charges against Bernard Greenspan, 79, included conspiracy, wire fraud and defrauding patients, prosecutors said.

Greenspan faces up to 20 years in prison.

"As we showed at trial — and the jury agreed — Greenspan abused his position and broke a wide range of federal laws when he accepted cash bribes and other illicit services in return for blood test referrals to [Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services],” U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman said.

Greenspan accepted more than $200,000 in kickbacks and bribes from March 2006 to April 2013 from BLS associates and employees in return for him referring $3 million in business to BLS, court documents showed.

BLS allegedly gave a job to an employee Greenspan was having a sexual relationship with and a holiday office party, according to the criminal complaint filed against him.
Greenspan's attorney told the Associated Press that his client's dealings with the lab were "legal" and "legitimate."

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Bernard Greenspan, 79 — Julio Cortez/Associated Press