{"id":701378,"date":"2018-03-22T19:02:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T00:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=701378"},"modified":"2018-03-24T05:41:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T10:41:51","slug":"pharmaceutical-benefits-manager-sentenced-in-kickback-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=701378","title":{"rendered":"Pharmaceutical Benefits Manager Sentenced in Kickback Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/02\/FederalCourthouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/02\/FederalCourthouse-200x159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"159\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-695183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/02\/FederalCourthouse-200x159.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/02\/FederalCourthouse.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8211; The former CEO of Pharmaceutical Technologies in Nebraska has been sentenced for making unlawful kickback payments in East Texas. He pleaded guilty to the charges in February of last year. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Thad Heartfield, in Tyler, sentenced Douglas M. Pick, 58, of Omaha, Nebraska, to one year and one day in federal prison. He was also ordered to pay a $50,000 fine and restitution in the amount of $348,195.50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; The former CEO of Pharmaceutical Technologies in Nebraska has been sentenced for making unlawful kickback payments in East Texas. He pleaded guilty to the charges in February of last year. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Thad Heartfield, in Tyler, sentenced Douglas M. Pick, 58, of Omaha, Nebraska, to one year and one day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=701378\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pharmaceutical Benefits Manager Sentenced in Kickback Scheme<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":695183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 08:32:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701379,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701378\/revisions\/701379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/695183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}