An elderly doctor convicted of accepting kickbacks as part of a long-running, $200 million bribes-for-test-referrals scheme run by a blood testing lab is now headed to prison.
Federal prosecutors say Bernard Greenspan, of River Edge, received a 41-month sentence Tuesday. The 79-year-old family doctor also must forfeit $203,693.
Greenspan was convicted in March of crimes including violating federal anti-kickback laws.
Prosecutors said Greenspan accepted about $200,000 in bribes from employees and associates of Parsippany-based Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services from March 2006 to April 2013. They said his referrals alone generated more than $3 million in revenue for the now-defunct company.
Greenspan's attorney told jurors that the payments were legitimate and that Greenspan did nothing illegal.
Greenspan is the only defendant to go to trial in the wide-ranging fraud.
