Joseph Rutigliano /last Q post/

Defendants Peter J. Ajemian and Peter J. Lesniewski, former orthopedic physicians, and Joseph Rutigliano, a former Long Island Rail Road (“LIRR”) conductor and union local president, were convicted, based on a guilty plea (Ajemian) and a jury verdict (Lesniewski and Rutigliano), of multiple counts of substantive and conspiratorial mail, wire, and health care fraud, see 18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 1341, 1343, 1347, 1349, in connection with a wide-ranging scheme to defraud the United States Railroad Retirement Board (“RRB”) by submitting fraudulent applications for disability pensions on behalf of LIRR employees. Rutigliano was also convicted of making false statements in his own disability recertification forms filed with the RRB. See 18 U.S.C. § 1001. The district court sentenced each defendant to a below-Guidelines prison term of 96 months and to three years' supervised release, and ordered restitution in amounts ranging from approximately 70 to 116 million dollars.

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