January 16, 2020

A former pharmaceutical sales representative in Texas has been sentenced to 2.5 years in prison and ordered to pay $1,746,222 in restitution for participating in a healthcare bribery scheme from 2013 to 2014.  In return for receiving commissions from pharmacies and paying them to medical providers, Holly Blakely had submitted fraudulent prescriptions to two different compounding pharmacies on behalf of unsuspecting individuals, causing approximately $8.8 million in losses to private and government healthcare providers.  USAO WDTX

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