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NYC Pharmacy And Clinic-Based Criminal Enterprise Charged With $16 Million Theft And Fraud Perpetrated On Medicaid

NEW YORK -- Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced the indictment of six individuals and three corporations in a $16 million, multi-year scheme to steal from Medicaid. The scam targeted vulnerable HIV patients, mainly in the Bronx, putting their lives in jeopardy by paying them not to fill their HIV prescriptions and then billing Medicaid for those unfilled prescriptions. The indictment, unsealed in Bronx Supreme Court today, alleges top charges of Enterprise Corruption and Grand Larceny in the First Degree against all of the defendants, including ring leader Mujahid a/k/a "Peter" Pervez, who illegally operated as many as 11 pharmacies in New York City and on Long Island, and by Richard Cedeno, the top prescribing physician assistant in New York State for highly addictive Class II narcotic drugs. Pervez, Cedeno and their co-conspirators, including two supervising pharmacists, face up to 25 years behind bars.

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Action Details

  • Date:June 19, 2013
  • Agency:New York Attorney General
  • Enforcement Types:
    • State Enforcement Agencies