Alexander Everest, the chairman of Elite American Health Systems, a California based company with a branch in New York City has recently been charged with multiple counts of bribery, criminal possession of a forged instrument, offering a false instrument for filing, and giving unlawful gratuities, for offering bribes to Harlem Hospital’s official in an attempt to place recent medical school graduates in the hospital’s surgical residency program.
Elite American Health Systems offers consultations to medical school graduates to help them better and understand and secure hospital residency positions. However between March 17, 2010 and May 4, 2010, Everest allegedly submit four forged application materials for four potentially unqualified clients to the Department of Surgery at Harlem Hospital in efforts to secure them residency.
On the four applications, the four medical school graduates allegedly secure the residency position mostly because of Everst fraudulent efforts. The defendant fraudulently claimed that the four clients were part of a specialty program in a California hospital.
Everest also purportedly attempted to bribe the hospital employee with at total of $6000 shortly after submitting the applications.
If convicted, Everest faces a maximum sentence of more than 35 years in prison.