Sentences with phrase «taub referred patients»

During testimony, he explained how he and Silver came to work out an arrangement whereby Taub referred patients with cancer to Sheldon Silver who, in addition to serving as Assembly speaker, also worked as «Of Counsel» at a private law firm.

Molo went on to highlight the numerous other firms to which Taub referred patients, as well as the other attorneys at Weitz who he had worked with because «they're a very good firm.»

Not exact matches

Taub then referred cancer patients to Silver who passed along their potentially lucrative cases to Weitz and Luxenberg where Silver served as «Of Counsel.»

Taub eventually reached a non-prosecution agreement with the government in exchange for his testimony (perhaps further proof that everything in life comes down to mutually beneficial relationships) but not before Taub rejected the original draft of the agreement suggesting he referred patients «in exchange» for money.

At his 2015 trial, evidence showed that Silver, 73, sponsored state grants to mesothelioma researcher Dr. Robert Taub, who helped generate fees for Silver by referring patients to his law firm, and backed legislation favored by developers who used a tax law firm affiliated with Silver.

The mesothelioma advocate said she learned through Taub's patients that he had been referring them to law firm Weitz & Luxenberg, which made money suing over the rare cancer that is caused by exposure to asbestos.

Even after Silver informed Taub in 2007 that a third round of grant funding wouldn't be coming because, as Taub recalled, Silver said, «I can't do this anymore,» the doctor said he continued to refer patients to Silver, albeit fewer, because he hoped the speaker would be «incentivized» to help with funding in the future.

Prosecutors hope Taub, one of their star witnesses, will prove to the jury that Silver pushed him to refer mesothelioma patients to Weitz & Luxenberg, the firm where Silver was of counsel and from where he collected portions of settlements while allegedly funneling state health care funds to Taub's research center at Columbia University.

November 4, 2015 Dr. Robert Taub took the stand, explaining that in 20o3 he began referring mesothelioma patients to the personal - injury law firm Weitz & Luxenberg at Silver's request.

They wouldn't know, for example, that Dr. Robert Taub, the prosecution's star witness, was referring asbestos patients to Silver's law firm, Weitz & Luxemberg, the prosecution argued.

Silver asked Taub to refer cancer patients through him to Weitz & Luxenberg, where court papers say Silver got a 33 percent cut of the firm's earnings on any asbestos cases he brought in.

Martins explained that this tactic centers around 81 - year - old Dr. Robert Taub, who told the jury he referred patients suffering from asbestos - related health problems to Silver's law firm in exchange for favors, including state - funded research grants.

SILVER also entered into a corrupt arrangement with Dr. Robert Taub, who was a leading physician specializing in the treatment of asbestos - related diseases, through which SILVER issued state grants and otherwise used his official position to provide favors to Dr. Taub so that Dr. Taub would refer and continue to refer his patients to SILVER at Weitz & Luxenberg, a firm with which SILVER was affiliated as counsel.

From 2002 to the present, SILVER received more than $ 3 million from legal fees Weitz & Luxenberg received from patients Dr. Taub had referred to SILVER at the firm while SILVER was taking official actions to benefit Dr. Taub.

Dr. Robert Taub, the director of Columbia's Mesothelioma Center, which handles asbestos - related cancer, referred his patients to Silver's law firm in exchange for the speaker steering $ 500,000 in state money to his research and providing favors to his family, according to a criminal complaint and sources.

No donation from the firm was forthcoming, according to former director Dr. Robert Taub, but state financing was — and the cancer researcher testified that he referred patients to Weitz & Luxenberg while getting the money, a favor he otherwise reserved for attorneys who had contributed directly.

Through a friend, Taub, who also holds a PhD from London University, met Silver, who demanded the doctor refer his patients to the law firm Weitz & Luxenberg, which specialized in tort cases involving asbestos - related diseases, according to prosecutors.

The prosecution alleges that Mr. Silver steered state grants to mesothelioma research to Columbia University and New York Presbyterian Hospital in exchange for a doctor there, Dr. Robert Taub, referring patients to a law firm that sues on behalf of such patients, Weitz & Luxenberg, where Mr. Silver was of counsel and received lucrative payments for referring clients with asbestos cases.

In one scheme, prosecutors said he sent $ 500,000 in state grant money to Dr. Robert Taub, a Columbia University researcher who in turn referred some of his patients to a law firm, Weitz & Luxenberg, where Silver was of counsel.

Taub also reiterated his motivation for referring patients to Silver was born out of a desire to convince Weitz & Luxenberg to begin donating to cancer research — specifically his mesothelioma research center — and that it was only after his referrals came that he was advised by a mutual acquaintance that he write Silver about state funding.

Over a trial expected to last a month, prosecutors will try to prove two schemes — that Silver helped Taub get $ 500,000 in state research funds in return for referring asbestos patients to a law firm that paid Silver, and also used his legislative clout to get two developers to use a Manhattan law firm that split its fees with Silver.

During legal arguments conducted while jurors were out of the room, Judge Valerie Caproni summed up Taub's testimony: «He referred patients as a way to maintain a relationship with Mr. Silver in hopes that Mr. Silver would return the favor.»

Taub said he told Silver he had fewer cases to refer, but also revealed he was sending patients to a rival law firm — Simmons Hanly Conroy — affiliated with a charity that had promised $ 3 million - plus toward Taub's research.

Mr. Silver said that the firm could not do that, but not long afterward, Mr. Silver asked Dr. Taub if he could refer mesothelioma patients to Weitz & Luxenberg.

But Mr. Silver had another idea: He asked Dr. Taub if he could refer mesothelioma patients to Weitz & Luxenberg.

In an early version of the nonprosecution agreement, for instance, prosecutors asked Dr. Taub to agree that he referred patients to Mr. Silver «in exchange» for official actions taken by the speaker.

Taub also claims in the email that a Weitz & Luxenberg lawyer had already called an 80 - year - old cancer patient he was treating and trying to refer to the foundation, noting that the money - hungry attorney told the patient he would be charged 30 percent of the settlement fee.

Dr. Robert Taub allegedly was so unhappy with the deal to send asbestos - related cancer patients to Silver that once the speaker stopped their quid pro quo, the physician began referring his patients to more ethical lawyers, the paper says.

For several jurors among the group of eight woman and four men, Mr. Silver's relationship with Dr. Taub, who referred mesothelioma patients with potentially profitable legal claims to a law firm that then paid Mr. Silver, seemed to come down to this: one man helping another out, just because he could.