A top sales representative was sentenced to prison for his participation in a money laundering conspiracy involving alcohol and drug addiction treatment centers and clinical laboratories. Lanny Fried, 41, of Miami Beach, previously pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. U.S. District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg sentenced Fried to 57 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay a $81,163.17 fine. According to court documents, Smart Lab LLC of Palm Beach Gardens was established by Chief Executive Officer H. Hamilton Wayne, a/k/a “Hawkeye,” and Chief Operating Officer Justin Morgan Wayne, to perform confirmatory urinalysis testing. Smart Lab, H. Wayne and J. Wayne established bank accounts to receive proceeds of insurance claims for medically unnecessary urinalysis testing and to pay kickbacks and bribes to individuals and entities that referred urine samples to Smart Lab for testing.
Fried, a top Smart Lab sales representative, had an agreement with Smart Lab to receive commissions of approximately 50% of the insurance reimbursements for the substance abuse treatment facilities he referred to Smart Lab. These payments were classified as commissions when in reality they were kickbacks for the referral of excessive, medically unnecessary, fraudulent and duplicative confirmatory drug testing.
