HALEDON, N.J. — Three men were sentenced in state court Tuesday for their roles in a scheme in which New York-Presbyterian Hospital laundry managers received bribes in exchange for steering business to a laundry supply company over a five-year period, according to Paul Di Lella, Passaic County, N.J., senior assistant prosecutor.
Michael Strauss, owner of Chempac Distributors, was sentenced to 364 days in the Passaic County Jail and five years of probation, and ordered to pay $100,000 in restitution to the hospital in monthly installments.