RI physician’s assistant sentenced for kickbacks

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BOSTON (AP) — A Rhode Island physician’s assistant has been sentenced to six months in prison and six months home confinement for taking kickbacks from a medical device company.

Forty-two-year-old Michael Cobb of Wakefield, R.I., was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Boston. He was ordered to pay a $3,000 fine and forfeit $10,000. He pleaded guilty in April.

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