...former HHCA President and Chief Executive Officer Bruce Feldman, 53; former Chief Financial Officer James Swiniuch, 44; and former salesman Joseph Cannavo, 46, with conspiracy to pay nearly $110,000 in kickbacks from 1995 to 1999 to at least five physicians for Medicare patient referrals. The government also alleged that the three actually paid kickbacks in 1997.

In addition, Cannavo also operated a company called S.M. Charters, which funneled payments to doctors for referrals to HHCA's...

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