Jesse Brown VA supervisor charged with pocketing kickbacks
By Sun-Times Media Wire
CHICAGO - A supervisor at
Jesse Brown VA Medical Center faces federal charges after allegedly getting kickbacks to steer nearly $2 million in orders that were never fulfilled.
Thomas Duncan, a supplies manager
at the Near West Side hospital, received about $36,350 in a scheme that ran from 2012 to 2019, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois.
Duncan, 37, allegedly agreed to accept kickbacks from Daniel Dingle, the president of a Dolton medical supply company, to place orders from Dingle’s company.
Dingle made checks payable to Helping Hands Property LLC, a private company managed by Duncan, to hide the money’s true purpose, the indictment states.