At the plea hearing the prosecutor told the Court that had the case proceeded to trial the government's evidence would have shown that SHAW was the president of Medical Products Division ("MPD"), located in Rockleigh, New Jersey. MPD was a subsidiary of National Medical Care, Inc. ("NMC"), a corporation providing dialysis treatments to patients nationwide and formerly located in Waltham, Massachusetts. MPD sold products and services to dialysis clinics owned by NMC and to other dialysis clinics, all of which provided dialysis treatments to kidney disease patients.

He was sentenced to eight months probation on a misdemeanor charge.

September 22, 1999 - Eileen Aird and Louise Verde, the former President and Product Manager respectively of Lifechem, Inc., an independent clinical blood laboratory and subsidiary of National Medical Care, Inc., were indicted today and charged with conspiracy to defraud Medicare and mail fraud. Lifechem was the laboratory for National Medical Care (NMC) dialysis facilities (before the merger with Fresenius). (link no longer available)

Other individuals have also been charged in this investigation. David C. Weber, former Vice President of Sales for the Medical Products Division of NMC, pled guilty to a conspiracy to commit an offense by offering and paying kickbacks to induce referrals of laboratory services. On June 28 of this year, Margaret Telgheder, a former Vice President of Marketing for National Medical Care, Inc.'s Medical Products Division pled guilty to a charge of conspiracy to defraud Medicare. (link no longer available)

On February 10 of this year, the former President of National Medical Care Inc.'s Medical Products Division, K. Glenn Shaw, was indicted and charged with conspiracy (www.bigcharts.com link no longer available).