Ex-ArthroCare CEO Baker loses appeal of 20-year sentence (Mass Device)
A federal appeals court this week upheld the 20-year sentence imposed on former ArthroCare CEO Michael Baker after his second conviction in a $750 million fraud case.
Baker and ex-ArthroCare CFO Michael Gluk were first convicted in June 2014 on charges that they ran a scheme to inflate revenues by dumping inventory, first with a distributor called DiscoCare and eventually via free shipments to end-users. ArthroCare was DiscoCare’s only client until it acquired the distrib...
