Update: Pharmacy Owner Sentenced

In an update to a December 15, 2025, story, Nestor E. Jaime was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay more than $2.5 million in restitution. Read a Department of Justice press release.

Pharmacy owner Nestor E. Jaime pleaded guilty to health care fraud. According to documents and court statements, Jaime, through a pharmacy he owned, submitted hundreds of false claims to Medicare for the high-reimbursement (i.e., more than $4,000 per prescription) medication Dificid, which the pharmacy never actually purchased or dispensed. Jaime submitted false claims on behalf of dozens of Medicare beneficiaries who never were prescribed any Dificid. Read a story from the Paterson Times and a Department of Justice press release.

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