Sheriff to serve 100 days, lose license for retaliating against nurses - Mywesttexas.com: Top Stories

Winkler County Sheriff Roberts L. Roberts will serve 100 days in jail and lose his Texas Peace Officers License for retaliating against two whistleblower nurses, a judge order Tuesday.

Visiting Judge Robert Moore handed out the punishment in a Midland County court Tuesday afternoon after the sheriff was found guilty of six charges in the case: two third-degree felony counts of retaliation, two third-degree felony counts of misuse of official information, and two class A misdemeanor counts of official suppression.

Roberts faced up to 10 years in prison on the charges. Moore however sentenced the sheriff to four years in prison, which  were suspended for four years of probation; 100 days in Winkler County jail, which the sheriff will serve; a $1,000 fine for each charge ($6,000 total); a removal from office as sheriff; a waive of his right to an appeal; and a permanent surrender of his Texas Peace Officers License.

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Feds: NH hospital to pay $2.2 million settlement - Boston.com

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center will pay more than $2.2 million to settle charges it improperly billed various federal health programs, Vermont's top federal prosecutor said Tuesday.

Of the total, more than $80,000 will go to the state of Vermont, $61,000 to New Hampshire, $1.5 million to the federal government and more than $334,000 will go to Dr. Thomas Prendergast, the former Dartmouth-Hitchcock physician who blew the whistle on the improper billing.

Based in Lebanon, N.H., Dartmouth-Hitchcock is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the Dartmouth Medical School and has a big footprint in northern New England. It discharged more than 13,000 New Hampshire patients in 2010 and nearly 10,000 from Vermont.

Prendergast told authorities the hospital improperly billed federal programs including Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans Affairs and the military's Tricare health insurance system for services delivered by resident physicians in training who were unsupervised by more senior attending physicians.

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