Originally published: December 13, 2013 7:01 PM
Updated: December 13, 2013 7:18 PM
By ellen.yan@newsday.com
Updated: December 13, 2013 7:18 PM
By ellen.yan@newsday.com
A Port Washington man who runs two New York City pharmacies
sold secondhand prescription drugs as "factory fresh" from legitimate suppliers in a scam to defraud government health programs out of millions of dollars, federal authorities said Friday.
sold secondhand prescription drugs as "factory fresh" from legitimate suppliers in a scam to defraud government health programs out of millions of dollars, federal authorities said Friday.
Purna Chandra Aramalla, 65, has been held on a $2 million bond since his arraignment Tuesday on one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud and one count of moneylaundering, said the U.S. attorney in Manhattan and the FBI. He faces up to 20 years on each count.
laundering, said the U.S. attorney in Manhattan and the FBI. He faces up to 20 years on each count.
Aramalla would order certain expensive, brand-name drugs, such as HIV medicines, from a street supplier who'd get them from patients who didn't want to take their medicine, federal officials said.
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