Ex-IHS employee sentenced for kickback scheme

THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2003

A former Indian Health Service employee on the Crow Reservation in Montana was sentenced to a year and one day in federal prison for accepting kickbacks.

Arthur C. Alden, 60, and other ex-employees participated in a scheme by which the IHS purchased light bulbs and other lighting equipment from an out-of-state company. Alden took $12,764 in kickbacks from the firm and was ordered to pay $23,540 in restitution to the IHS.

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