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February 12, 2008
A Florida vascular surgeon was stripped of his medical license today and sentenced to 30 days in a federal halfway house and one year of probation for lying while giving testimony as an expert witness in 2002.
Alex Zakharia, 68, a Miami-Dade County heart surgeon, received the sentence from U.S. District Judge Paul Borman.
Zakharia pleaded guilty last year to misdemeanor contempt of court after falsely testifying in a medical malpractice case involving the Veterans Administration in Ann Arbor. He testified that he had performed more than 100 coronary artery heart bypass grafts since 1995, which was untrue, authorities said.Read More About Fla. surgeon stripped of license for lying during Michigan trial...