2 East Orange pharmacy employees sentenced
Two Essex County pharmacy technicians were sentenced Monday for participating in a scheme in which pharmacy owners and employees allegedly bought completed forms for HIV/AIDS drugs from indigent patients.
Prosecutors said the idea of the scheme was to have Medicaid pay for drugs that were never actually dispensed.
A third pharmacy technician also pleaded guilty illegal possession of prescription drugs.
Jannah Rasheedah Amatul Muid, 26, of East Orange and Alicia Stephens, 29, of Newark each were sentenced to three years of probation by Superior Court Judge Michael A. Petrolle in Newark. The judge ordered them excluded from working for any Medicaid provider for five years.
In addition, Muid was ordered to perform 150 hours of community service while Stephens was sentenced to 100 hours of service.
Muid and Stephens each pleaded guilty on Jan. 20 to Medicaid fraud, a charge contained in an Oct. 26, 2009 grand-jury indictment. In pleading guilty, the defendants, both technicians at Pharmacy of America in East Orange, admitted that between May 11, 2006 and October 15, 2008 they paid Medicaid patients for prescriptions and billed Medicaid for drugs that were not given to the patients.
Prosecutors said the idea of the scheme was to have Medicaid pay for drugs that were never actually dispensed.
A third pharmacy technician also pleaded guilty illegal possession of prescription drugs.
Jannah Rasheedah Amatul Muid, 26, of East Orange and Alicia Stephens, 29, of Newark each were sentenced to three years of probation by Superior Court Judge Michael A. Petrolle in Newark. The judge ordered them excluded from working for any Medicaid provider for five years.
In addition, Muid was ordered to perform 150 hours of community service while Stephens was sentenced to 100 hours of service.
Muid and Stephens each pleaded guilty on Jan. 20 to Medicaid fraud, a charge contained in an Oct. 26, 2009 grand-jury indictment. In pleading guilty, the defendants, both technicians at Pharmacy of America in East Orange, admitted that between May 11, 2006 and October 15, 2008 they paid Medicaid patients for prescriptions and billed Medicaid for drugs that were not given to the patients.
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