Pharmacist Convicted for Health Care Fraud and Black-Market Prescription Drug Diversion Scheme | OPA
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on October 18, 2022
A federal jury convicted a California woman last Friday, Oct. 14 for a health care fraud and prescription drug diversion scheme involving two Southern California pharmacies.
According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Irina Sadovsky, 53, of Calabasas, the owner and pharmacist-in-charge of Five Star RX doing business as Five Star Pharmacy (Five Star Pharmacy) and Ultimate Pharmacy Inc. (Ultimate Pharmacy), engaged in a health care fraud and black market prescription drug diversion conspiracy that began in or around September 2016, and continued through in or around April 2017. Sadovsky submitted claims to . . .
