CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - A Chicago area man who pleaded guilty to swindling Northwestern and other hospitals out of more than $2.5 million has been sentenced to almost five years in federal prison.
Two Maseratis and a Land Rover: Just some of the high-end purchases that Dennis Haggerty made with the hundreds of thousands of dollars he received from Northwestern Memorial Hospital and other medical centers.
The hospitals were expecting N-95 masks for their money. It was the early days of COVID, in the spring of 2020. The federal government said there were no masks and that 46-year-old Dennis Haggerty of Burr Ridge swindled $2.6 million dollars from hospitals.
A federal judge in Chicago sentenced Haggerty Monday to 57 months in prison - almost five years - and the Tribune reported that it is the stiffest sentence so far in Chicago’s federal court in a fraud case connected to the pandemic.
“Did I make mistakes? 100%. Am I a decent man? Yes, I think I am,” Haggerty said in his apologizing at his Monday sentencing.
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