Okla. SNF owner, state official guilty of bribery.A nursing home owner home owner home n → propriétaire occupant and a fired state deputy health commissioner from Oklahoma were convicted of federal bribery charges recently. A jury convicted Jim Smart, the co-owner of seven nursing homes, on charges of paying a $1,000 bribe in April to Brent VanMeter, then state deputy health commissioner, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a report by the Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. . In a telephone conversation taped by the FBI and played at trial, VanMeter said he would take the $1,000 in exchange for changing how the nursing home was certified. The change was needed so that Smart's nursing homes could collect $4.37 each time a resident in the homes received a blood glucose blood glucose Diabetology The principal sugar produced by the body from food–especially carbohydrates, but also from proteins and fats; glucose is the body's major source of energy, is transported to cells via the circulation and used by cells in the presence test, according to newspaper accounts. The conviction was the first to result from an ongoing federal and state investigation into corruption in the Oklahoma Health Department. Both men are expected to appeal. |
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