Three Plead Guilty to $50M Compound Drug Scheme

Two pharmaceutical sales representatives and a firefighter admitted defrauding the health insurer for New Jersey state employees, and other carriers, by dispensing compound drugs that were not medically necessary, the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey said. Atlantic City firefighter Michael Pepper and sales representatives Thomas Hodnett of Voorhees and Steven Urbanski of Marlton pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud, before U.S. District Judge Robert B. Kugler in Camden, according to a press release. Prosecutors say that from January 2015 to April 2016, the thr...