UTICA, NY (WECT) - A federal jury in New York convicted Benjamin Viloski, an attorney from Oak Island, on numerous fraud and money laundering charges Friday.

Viloski worked as an attorney and a broker/consultant for Dick's Sporting Goods, where prosecutors say he helped orchestrate a $2 million kickback and money-laundering scheme involving the development of new Dick's stores across the country.  The US Attorney's Office of the Northern District of New York says Viloski and others used front entities to accept consulting and broker commission payments on projects to develop stores and then secretly passed all or a large amount of that payment to a Dick's officer and employee involved in the process.

Viloski was involved in kickbacks related to 22 different stores, according to the news release, using groups called "Retail Development Network, Inc." and "Shopping Center Real Estate, Inc."

BRUNSWICK COUNTY, NC (WECT) – The new veteran’s administration clinic was scheduled to open in Brunswick County Monday, but that didn’t happen due to some unforeseen delays in the process.

According to Senior Veterans Service Officer Anita Hartsell, the VA was still getting the new facility prepared Monday for its official opening.  A ribbon cutting is expected to take place Monday, August 8 and tours of the facility will be given after the ceremony.

It has taken years to get the much-needed facility into Brunswick County. Most veterans there had to travel to Wilmington, Myrtle Beach or even Charleston to get VA medical care.

The new clinic is located off Medical Center Campus Drive. The clinic will be open four days a week from 7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

BRUNSWICK COUNTY, NC (WECT) — Patients will be moving from Brunswick Community Hospital to the new Brunswick Novant Medical Center on Sunday, July 31.

The current BCH emergency room will close at 5:59 a.m. on Sunday and the new emergency department at BNMC will open at 6 a.m. At approximately 7 a.m., hospital staff will begin to move patients to their new location with the help of Health Care Relocations, which has moved more than 250 hospitals since its inception in 1993.

“We are excited about opening the new hospital in a county where local residents have so passionately declared the need for increased access to healthcare,” said Denise Mihal, Brunswick Community Hospital president, in a news release. “Our leaders, physicians, nurses and staff will work to ensure that this hospital lives up to the community’s expectations and that it is a model of patient care both locally and across the state.”

The new hospital will reportedly feature 74 acute care beds, four observation beds and an additional operating room for five total operating rooms. Amy Myers, with Brunswick Community Hospital, says there will be a 24-hour emergency department, maternity center, intensive and progressive care units, surgical services, imaging and laboratory services, as well as physical therapy, speech therapy, cardiac rehabilitation and pulmonary rehabilitation.