Tag: prescription fraud
Vegas Viagra Scam: $2M in Fake Pills
⏱ 3 min read David Webber, 50, of Henderson, Nevada, built a nearly $2 million empire slinging fake Viagra and Cialis, according to a federal indictment unsealed today. For at least five years, since 2018, Webber allegedly imported hundreds of thousands of illicit erectile dysfunction pills from unregistered factories in India, then pushed them onto…
Chicago Doc Ran Opioid Circus: 29 Months Behind Bars
LONDON, KY – Ranjit Wahi, a 78-year-old Chicago physician, will spend the next two and a half years in federal prison after admitting he turned his pain clinic into a blatant opioid distribution hub. Wahi was sentenced today to 29 months for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and methadone, a sentence reflecting the scale of the…
Chicago Doc Ran Pill Mill, Gets 29 Months
A Chicago pain doctor traded his oath for opioids, raking in cash by turning his clinic into a brazen pill mill. Ranjit Wahi, 78, was sentenced to 29 months in federal prison Tuesday for his role in a two-year conspiracy to illegally distribute oxycodone and methadone. The case, prosecuted in the Eastern District of Kentucky…
Denver Hospital Worker Poisoned Patients for Pain Pills
A Denver hospital case manager systematically swapped opioid painkillers for over-the-counter allergy medication, leaving 127 patients vulnerable and in needless suffering. Shelbi Wolken, 35, confessed in federal court to a brazen scheme that stretched for seven months, exploiting a position of trust to fuel a personal addiction. The fallout could have been deadly, and the…
Florida Fraudster Cashes In on Medicare: 5 Years Behind Bars
A Florida man is trading sunshine for shadows after a New York jury convicted him of masterminding a brazen Medicare fraud that bilked the system out of millions. Ted Albin, the operator of Grapevine Professional Services, received a five-year federal prison sentence today, a penalty handed down by U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl after…
