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Township Doctor Sentenced To Prison For Kickback Scheme

us attorney logoA township doctor with a practice in Jamesburg was sentenced to one year in federal prison June 8 for his role in a kickback scheme involving a Morris County diagnostics company.

Dr. Paresh Patel, 55, will also have to pay a $6,000 fine and had to forfeit more than $174,000 he received in bribes during the four-year scheme, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

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