Tajul Chowdhury, MD, 75, owned and operated a medical practice called the Center for Pain Management, according to a Jan. 13 Justice Department news release. His son, Mohammad Chowdhury, worked as a marketer for a pharmacy in the Edinburg area.
The Justice Department said prescriptions for expensive compound drugs were referred from Dr. Chowdhury’s clinic in exchange for kickbacks made from the pharmacy to Mohammad Chowdhury. The son was paid $6.6 million as part of the scheme, according to the release.
Both men are scheduled to be sentenced in March.
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