He was a rising independent filmmaker who co-wrote the screenplay of a 2019 movie starring Nicolas Cage.
But Ivor Jallah’s Hollywood career –and his freedom – are now in jeopardy. His troubles began when he started selling “headache spray” as well as pain and scar creams through a number of his Texas pharmacies.
He allegedly billed insurance companies for the medications that were neither prescribed nor provided to any patients, according to his November 2020 federal indictment. Jallah’s former business partner, Shannon Turley, also is charged in the federal case with health care fraud.
She is the ex-wife of a former MTV reality show star who died in May 2017.
Together, the Collin County pair allegedly ripped off insurance companies with the fake prescriptions using a string of pharmacies they formed together beginning in January 2017 in North Texas, Houston and elsewhere in Texas.
Prosecutors say they paid for patients’ personal information and used the proceeds of the fraud to buy real estate and luxury vehicles.
North Texas, one of the nation’s hot spots for health care fraud, has seen multiple schemes involving pain and scar creams, costing millions of dollars in fraudulent billings. Statewide, dozens of people have been charged in federal court. In most cases, kickbacks were paid for the creams. Medicare, Workers’ Compensation and other government insurance programs paid the tab.
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