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A veteran Philadelphia journalist is among a group of seven people who pleaded guilty this week for their involvement in a $20 million Medicare and Medicaid fraud scheme at a former pharmacy in South Philly, the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General said Friday.
Angelo "A.D." Amorosi — a journalist who has written stories for PhillyVoice, the Inquirer and Philadelphia Magazine, among other news outlets — was one of nine defendants charged in December following an investigation into prescription fraud at the former Broad Street Family Pharmacy. The shop at 1416 S. Broad St. closed in 2021 after investigators raided the business.
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Between 2016 and 2021, prosecutors said the couple who owned the pharmacy paid some of their customers cash to bring in prescriptions for expensive drugs. The pharmacy would then submit false claims to Medicare and Medicaid, billing them for prescriptions that were rarely filled, prosecutors said. Most of the fraudulent claims were for HIV medications and the antipsychotic drug Latuda, which pay out high reimbursements.
“This was a yearslong conspiracy that defrauded state and federal programs designed to help people and families in need, and ripped off taxpayers who fund those programs,” Attorney General Dave Sunday said.
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