Raheel Pervez and
his accomplices scraped in their dirty money by paying off hundreds of
HIV patients not to fill their prescriptions, all the while billing the
social health care program for millions, according to prosecutors
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| Pervez pled guilty last month to falsifying documents in a criminal enterprise involving pharmacies across greater New York City, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said on Monday. Pervez will serve 1-3 years for that charge alone, Schneiderman said. |
A Bronx pharmacist is facing up to 25 years behind bars for stealing
$16 million of New York State’s Medicaid funds by preying on poor HIV
patients.
Raheel Pervez and his cronies scraped in their dirty money by paying
off hundreds of HIV patients not to fill their prescriptions, all the
while billing the social health care program for millions, prosecutors
said.
Pervez, 41, of Dix Hills, N.Y., already pled guilty last month to
falsifying documents in a criminal enterprise involving pharmacies
across greater New York City, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said on
Monday. Pervez will serve 1-3 years for that charge alone, Schneiderman
said.
National HIV/AIDS activists were sickened by the scam.
“He is killing these people,” Jessica Schilling, the operations officer
for the National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project said of Pervez, noting
that any extended break from an HIV medication regimen can cause fatal
intolerance to the life-saving drugs. “Medication is the only thing
standing between people living with HIV and dying from HIV.”