Inside of Jail. TFP File Photo A Texas pharmacist has been sentenced to over 17 years in federal prison and ordered to forfeit a record-breaking $
A Texas pharmacist has been sentenced to over 17 years in federal prison and ordered to forfeit a record-breaking $405 million for his role in a massive healthcare fraud scheme.
Dehshid “David” Nourian, 62, of Plano, was sentenced on February 21st to 17 years and six months in prison and ordered to pay over $115 million in restitution. The forfeiture order, issued on March 6th, represents the largest ever secured by the Department of Justice’s Health Care Fraud Unit.
According to court documents and trial evidence, Nourian and his co-conspirators orchestrated a scheme to defraud the Department of Labor by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary compound creams. They paid doctors millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks for prescribing these expensive creams, which were then filled by pharmacies owned and operated by Nourian and his associates…