Attorney General James Announces Sentencing of Former Owner of Over 20 New York City Pharmacies for Running $11 Million Medicaid Fraud Targeting Vulnerable HIV Patients

New York – New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced that former pharmacy owner Aftab Hussain has been sentenced to two to six years in prison for stealing over $11.5 million dollars through a Medicaid fraud scheme that preyed on low-income HIV patients who needed life-saving medications. Hussain and his associates paid illegal kickbacks to patients to ensure these patients would use over 20 pharmacies they owned across New York City and Westchester County, and then filled their prescriptions with unsafe medications illegally purchased from the black market or other pharmacy patients. Hussain and his associates billed Medicaid a total of over $11.5 million for these illegally obtained drugs over the course of their years-long scheme. Hussain was the last defendant to be sentenced in an investigation that included the arrest and conviction of five individual defendants along with two pharmacies located throughout New York City.

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