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Mississippi drugstore and drugstore distributor owner sentenced to 18 years in prison and ordered to pay back more than $ 287 million for his part in what prosecutors called a $ 510 million health care fraud .
By The Associated Press
January 16, 2021 at 10:07 pm
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HATTIESBURG, Mississippi – A Mississippi drugstore and drugstore distributor was sentenced to 18 years in prison and ordered to pay back the government nearly $ 287.7 million for his part in what prosecutors described as fraud in $ 510 million health care involving an expensive pain cream. .
Wade Ashley Walters, 54, of Hattiesburg, was also ordered in Friday’s conviction to lose nearly $ 56.6 million he personally earned from the scheme, according to a press release from the US prosecutor’s office .
Walters had been indicted in an indictment with 37 counts. He pleaded guilty in July to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and …
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