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Fair Lawn Pharmacy Worker Admits Role In Multi-Million-Dollar Health Fraud Fair Lawn Pharmacy Worker Admits Role In Multi-Million-Dollar Health Fraud
Fair Lawn Pharmacy Worker Admits Role In Multi-Million-Dollar Health 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 is Dr. Mark Filippone, 71, of Wallington. Their scheme to fill bogus prescriptions for medically unnecessary pain crea…
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…