Drug manufacturer Eli Lilly is accusing a Pentecostal bishop, two pastors and an elder of $250 million fraud.
According to a lawsuit filed in federal court on Tuesday, four leaders in the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) were involved in a years-long scheme to steal rebate money. They allegedly bought and sold massive quantities of Trulicity, a drug to control blood sugar in people with type-2 diabetes, and pretended to give the medicine to church members.
The patients and their prescriptions were fictional, the lawsuit claims…