Neurologist from Atlantic County Indicted for Taking $195,000 in Bribes

TRENTON – Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman and the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor (OIFP) announced today that an Egg Harbor Township neurologist was named in a four-count state grand jury indictment for accepting kickbacks in exchange for patient referrals, worth several thousand dollars, from six MRI facilities operated by a South Jersey medical imaging center services company.Syed Jaffery, 54, of Egg Harbor Township, part-owner of Premier Neurology and Mask Realities corporation, was charged with second-degree health care claims fraud, second-degree commercial bribery, second-degree financial facilitation of criminal activity (money laundering) and third-degree running.