Nine Charged in $20 Million Pharmacy Scheme

Elizabeth Thompson, the registered owner of Broad Street Family Pharmacy, and her husband, Peter Dello Buono, who oversaw daily operations along with pharmacist Frank Bengermino, are charged with engineering a scheme that involved fraudulent claims to federal benefits programs for expensive medications. In reality, the pharmacy allegedly filled very few of the prescriptions and instead paid their customers cash in exchange for bringing their prescriptions to the pharmacy. Read a story on MSN and a press release from the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General.

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