Sanova Exec Fesses Up to Bribing Stryker Engineer to Win a Multi-Million Dollar Contract
An executive with a New York metallurgy firm, Sanova LLC, pleaded guilty yesterday to bribing an engineering director at Stryker to win a multi-million dollar contract, according to federal prosecutors.
Eugene Ostrovsky, vice president and partner at Sanova, admitted that he paid the roughly $70,000 in bribes to Daniel Lawrynowicz in 2012 and 2013 to help Sanova land a contract with Stryker’s Howmedica division in New Jersey, according to the U.S. District Attorney for New Jersey’s office.
Lawrynowicz’s LinkedIn page lists him as a 15-year Stryker employee who is senior director of advanced engineering, leading “a team of 41 engineers and scientists at the Mahwah, N.J. facility dedicated to supporting the Recon Business Units.”
Eugene Ostrovsky, vice president and partner at Sanova, admitted that he paid the roughly $70,000 in bribes to Daniel Lawrynowicz in 2012 and 2013 to help Sanova land a contract with Stryker’s Howmedica division in New Jersey, according to the U.S. District Attorney for New Jersey’s office.
Lawrynowicz’s LinkedIn page lists him as a 15-year Stryker employee who is senior director of advanced engineering, leading “a team of 41 engineers and scientists at the Mahwah, N.J. facility dedicated to supporting the Recon Business Units.”