Michael Yaron was sentenced to serve 60 months in jail, and Moshe Buchnik was sentenced to 48 months in jail. Both men were also sentenced to pay $500,000 each in criminal fines.
Mr. Yaron owned two companies that were convicted for their role in the conspiracy: National Environmental Associates and Oxford Construction & Development. Those companies have also each been sentenced to pay a $1 million criminal fine. Mr. Buchnik was president of an asbestos abatement company that did business at NYPH.
The fraudulent scheme was centered around Santo Saglimbeni, a former vice president of facilities operations at the hospital, with help from Emilio Figueroa, a former director of facilities operations at NYPH. The two men awarded contracts to Mr. Yaron, Mr. Buchnik and their companies in return for more than $2.3 million in kickbacks, which were funneled through a fake company called Artech.
Mr. Saglimbeni and Mr. Figueroa are scheduled to appear in court July 31.
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