Two Local Women Convicted in $7 Million Charity Drug Theft Scam
Two area women pleaded guilty in court Tuesday of stealing millions of dollars in drugs that were supposed to go to impoverished patients.
Two Middlesex County women admitted in court that they defrauded a charity program out of more than $7 million in donated medicine by using their positions as customer service reps to divert the medications to addresses they had access to, said U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman in a statement. Keisha Jackson, 47, of Perth Amboy and Jameshia Bryant, 26, of South River, pleaded guilty Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Mary L. Cooper in Trenton federal court to charges of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Jackson and Bryant were previously charged in June. A third defendant, Lateefah McKenzie Body, 34, of Linden has also been charged in the case. According to court records, a pharmaceutical company had donated millions of dollars worth of FDA-…
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12:21 am on Thursday, November 15, 2012
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