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Pharmacy Worker From Fort Lee Admits Role In Multi-Million-Dollar Health Care Fraud Pharmacy Worker From Fort Lee Admits Role In Multi-Million-Dollar Health Care Fraud
Pharmacy Worker From Fort Lee Admits Role In Multi-Million-Dollar Health Care Fraud A massive federal health fraud case claimed another conspirator when a Fair Lawn pharmacy employee from Fort Lee admitted participating in a scheme that cost a federal workers' compensation program millions of dollars. Zachary Ohebshalom, 34, was the second of five defendants to take a plea deal from federal prosecutors, less than a month after Estela Arco-Blaustein, 55, of Mahwah pleaded out in U.S. District Court in Newark for her role in the scheme. Still facing charges are Dr. Mark Filippone, 71, of Wallington and the co-owners of Jiffy Scripts in Fair Lawn, Joseph Vangelas, 33, of Fort…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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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…

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by Jerry DeMarco