LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — A Las Vegas man has been sentenced to spend over three years in federal prison for conspiring to fix nurse wages.

On Friday, a federal district court sentenced Eduardo "Eddie" Lopez.

Lopez held executive positions at three different home health agencies where he oversaw recruitment, hiring, retention and assignments of nurses and healthcare staff, according to a federal indictment.

From March 2016 and May 2019, prosecutors said Lopez worked with other co-conspirators to "suppress and eliminate competition" for the services of nurses.

More charges were later added after Lopez sold his healthcare staffing company in Dec. 2021 for over $10 million and "falsely presented to the buyer of his company that federal law enforcement was not investigating him or his company

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