A Maryland man has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for orchestrating a nationwide prescription fraud ring that used stolen identities of medical doctors to issue thousands of fake narcotics prescriptions, prosecutors announced Tuesday.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, 25-year-old Benjamin Jamal Washington of Hyattsville was sentenced to 65 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Wesley L. Hsu. Washington pleaded guilty in September 2025 to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.
Prosecutors said that from September 2020 through May 2023, Washington led a sophisticated scheme in which he and his co-conspirators stole personal information from dozens of doctors, including names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, and Drug Enforcement Administration registration numbers. The group used that information to impersonate doctors, obtain fraudulent identification documents, and create fake e-prescribing accounts in the victims’ names…