Two businessmen who were convicted of conspiring in a hospital kickback scheme could be considered a flight risk as antitrust prosecutors decide whether to grant the men their request to be released on bail as they appeal their case. Moshe Buchnik and Michael Yon were found guilty of conspiring in the scheme, bribing employees at New York Presbyterian Hospital in order to win contracts to monitor asbestos levels in the hospital. They are currently imprisoned in New Jersey. In response to their request to make bail, their lawyers are the Department of Justice have filed contradicting statements about whether the men are a flight risk as their appeal is pending. The DOJ argues that the two Israeli-American citizens have enough money to flee the US; the defendants’’ lawyers disagree.
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