BEAUMONT, Texas — A Southeast Texas dentist who pleaded guilty to health care fraud has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison and must pay $835,000.
A federal judge in Beaumont on Thursday sentenced Dr. Terrence Ewing Syler to 22 months behind bars and ordered him to forfeit $829,000. The 70-year-old dentist, who ran Syler Orthodontics in Beaumont, was also fined $6,000.
Beaumont dentist gets nearly 2 years for fraud | www.statesman.com.