Man Sentenced for Leading Scheme

Benjamin Jamal Washington was sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for leading a long-running scheme in which dozens of medical doctors’ personal information was stolen and then used to create fraudulent e-prescribing accounts, which his accomplices then used to issue thousands of fraudulent prescriptions of controlled substances. They even obtained fake drivers’ licenses in the physicians’ names and gained access to the physicians’ phone numbers. Read a story from the Daily Voice and a Department of Justice press release.

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