The Runner Man

The New Jersey Supreme Court imposed a one -year retroactive suspension for criminal use of a “runner” 

The Disciplinary Review Board described the crimes that led to 

respondent’s guilty plea in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Mercer County, to one count of third degree conspiracy with the purpose of promoting or facilitating the commission of the crime of using a runner, in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:21-22 and N.J.S.A. 2C:5-2…

Respondent admitted that, for the four-and-one-half years from June 1, 2009 to January 1, 2014, he conspired with brothers Anhuar and Karim Bandy, owners of KEKK Marketing, Inc., purportedly a managing or marketing company. According to the indictment, the scheme involved the Bandy brothers’ use of runners to recruit automobile accident victims as patients for treatment at certain chiropractic facilities named in the indictment…

In at least fifty instances, respondent accepted chiropractic referrals, and paid the Bandys referral fees in return. The transcript of the plea hearing is silent about the amount of those referral fees and the amount that respondent realized from the arrangement.

(Mike Frisch)