Former Defense Department Employee Sentenced to 40 Months in Prison for $2.5 Million Health Care Fraud

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 18, 2014. Jonathan M. Hargett, a former civilian employee of the Department of Defense, was sentenced today to serve 40 months in prison on a charge of health care fraud stemming from a scheme in which he collected over $2.2 million after submitting fraudulent claims for federal health care benefits.

The sentencing was announced by Ronald C. Machen Jr., U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia; Robert E. Craig Jr., Special Agent in…