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OxyContin Ring Busted in Rochester
A Rochester man and woman have been sentenced for their roles in a conspiracy to fraudulently obtain and distribute OxyContin, a highly addictive painkiller.
Jimmie Lee Simmons, 60, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer to six months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $367.55. Simmons was convicted of acquiring Oxycodone through fraud.
His co-conspirator, Shantel Williams, 37, was sentenced to 12 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution totaling $11,135.70. Williams was convicted of conspiring to fraudulently obtain and distribute Oxycodone.
According to Assistant U.S. Attorney John J. Field, Williams wrote fraudulent prescriptions for OxyContin, which she then sold to Simmons and James Marsh. Simmons located individuals willing to participate in the scheme by sharing their Medicaid information with him.
Simmons provided the Medicaid information to Williams, who wrote fraudulent scripts using this information, and sold them to Simmons for $860 each. Simmons then took the named beneficiaries to local pharmacies to fill the prescriptions, and paid them $100 for each prescription.
From July 2008 to March 2010, Williams wrote and sold at least 20 fraudulent OxyContin prescriptions. Williams and Simmons were arrested along with five others in December 2012. All seven defendants have been convicted.
The sentencing was the culmination of an investigation on the part of Special Agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration, under the direction of Acting Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, New York Field Division, and Investigators of the New York State Attorney General, Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, under the direction of Acting Director Amy Held.
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Key Facts
- State: New York
- Category: Drug Trafficking|Fraud & Financial Crimes|Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release ↗
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