"An Army cardiologist on Friday was sentenced to pay more than $12,700 in fines and restitution for accepting free meals and illegal payments from Guidant Sales, whose representatives marketed implant devices used at military hospitals.
In a sentencing memorandum filed this week in U.S. District Court, prosecutors said the gifts and money helped transform Maj. Jason Layne Davis, who practices at Madigan Army Medical Center, into an "aggressive user and advocate" of the heart-implant devices manufactured by Guidant, a subsidiary of Boston Scientific.
Judge J. Richard Creatura, in announcing the sentence for Davis' misdemeanor count, said the total of fines and restitution reflects the sum of "every dinner, every bottle of wine and every other gratuity that you have ever received from Guidant."
The case is a rare instance of the Justice Department prosecuting a doctor for taking money and gifts from a pharmaceutical company or medical-device maker, and results from Davis' position with the federal government, which prohibits such gifts and payments from vendors.
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Davis is the former chief of cardiology at Madigan and received a Bronze Medal for his service in Iraq. He is scheduled to be deployed to Afghanistan.
"I engage people. I care about them. I try to mentor, and in the course of doing that, I will certainly admit that I have made some mistakes," Davis told the judge. "There is more to this than some rogue physician who is corrupt — because I am not corrupt, sir."
The sentencing followed a plea agreement reached earlier this year with Davis. Last November, Boston Scientific paid $600,000 to settle a civil lawsuit stemming from the payments to Davis."
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