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Boston Pharmacist Pleads Guilty In Federal White Collar Fraud Case

By Altman & Altman

Often, when I am telling you about a crime taking place in Boston?s Dorchester area, it is a story about assault or guns or drugs?or maybe all three. Not today. Today, it is a tale of conspiring to defraud the federal government. Amadiegwu O., 63, who lived in Randolph (hereinafter, the Defendant?) is a pharmacist who ran a drug store in the area. The Defendant became the target of a joint investigation by the Department of Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug Administration, the Drug Enforcement Administration; the Attorney General's office, the state auditor and Boston Police. Yesterday, he pleaded guilty in Federal District Court. In doing so, he admitted that he defrauded federal health plans out of nearly $353,000. This would be the money he collected for prescriptions he never provided to patients, according to federal officials...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on September 14, 2010 (boomark / email).