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17-year sentence for West Palm Beach eye doctor in $73 million Medicare fraud case

By The Sun-Sentinel  
   February 23, 2018

A prominent South Florida eye doctor once accused of bribing Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey received a 17-year sentence Thursday for stealing $73 million from Medicare by persuading elderly patients to undergo excruciating tests and treatments they didn't need for diseases they didn't have.

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