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Feds: Wallington Doc, Fair Lawn Drug Store Owners Defraud US Workers' Comp Out Of $10 Million Feds: Wallington Doc, Fair Lawn Drug Store Owners Defraud US Workers' Comp Out Of $10 Million
Feds: Wallington Doc, Fair Lawn Drug Store Owners Defraud US Workers' Comp Out Of $10 Million Postal workers traveled from as far as Florida and Georgia to visit a Wallington doctor who helped the owners of a Fair Lawn pharmacy defraud a federal workers’ compensation program out of $10 million, authorities said. Federal agents on Tuesday raided the Morrissee Avenue home-office of Dr. Mark Filippone, 71, whom they accused of submitting bogus reports that allowed hundreds of now-former U.S. Postal Service employees to submit disability claims for injuries they purportedly suffered on the job. Filippone, a licensed physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist, also prescribed “expen…