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Franklin Lakes Doctor Gets 18 Months In Fed Pen For Test Company Bribes Franklin Lakes Doctor Gets 18 Months In Fed Pen For Test Company Bribes
Franklin Lakes Doctor Gets 18 Months In Fed Pen For Test Company Bribes FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. -- A physician from Franklin Lakes was sentenced to a plea-bargained 18 months in federal prison Wednesday for his role in a massive test-referral bribery scheme. Basel Batarseh, 57, will have to serve the entire term: There is no parole in the federal prison system. Batarseh, who had an internal medicine practice in West New York, previously admitted that he took more than $104,000 in payoffs from employees and associates of Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS) of Parsippany between November 2007 and August 2010. In exchange, Batarseh said, he generated more t…

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