Forest Park Bookkeeper Sentenced to Probation

The keeper of the bribery books at Forest Park Medical Center was sentenced Wednesday to five years’ probation. Andrea Kay Smith tearfully accepted the sentence handed down by U.S. District Judge Jack Zouhary, who presided earlier this year over the trial of nine defendants in the Forest Park case, one of the largest, most far-reaching medical fraud trials in history. The five-year probationary sentence, together with a $27,855 fine, was in keeping with recommendations from the U.S. attorney’s office. Smith, a former assistant to Forest Park executive Alan Beauchamp, testified at trial for the government under a plea agreement she…