A businessman whose name popped up during the Rod Blagojevich corruption trial has now been arrested on separate charges, accusing him of fraud and bribery related to his chain of surgical outpatient centers.
Raghuveer Nayak (RUG'-oo-veer NAY'-uk) is charged with offering kickbacks to doctors in exchange for referrals to his facilities… and with filing fraudulent federal tax returns.
Nayak was mentioned during the Blagojevich trial… because prosecutors believed he had been approached to raise a million dollars for Blagojevich as part of an alleged deal to win a Senate appointment for Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. But Nayak was not charged with wrongdoing in that investigation.
