Calif. pharmacist sentenced to 2 years prison in $1M fraud case

Paul Mansour, a pharmacist and co-owner of Best Buy Drugs in Sierra Madre, Calif., was sentenced June 12 to two years in prison after entering a guilty plea for billing more than $1 million in fraudulent claims for prescription drugs that were never given to patients. 

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Mr. Mansour created fake patient profiles to duplicate prescriptions and then submitted the false claims to Medicare for the medications under the names of real patients, according to a news release from the Justice Department.

The maximum sentence he faced was 10 years for the charge.

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