N.J. Pharmacy Owner Pleads Guilty to Medicaid Fraud

The part-owner of two pharmacies in East Orange and Jersey City has pleaded guilty to overbilling Medicaid for HIV/AIDS drugs that were never dispensed, New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram announced this week.Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Greta Gooden Brown said in a statement that Abdul Bari, 53, of Nutley, N.J., pleaded guilty before a Superior Court judge in Hudson County, N.J., to an accusation charging him with second-degree health care claims fraud and third-degree filing of a false or fraudulent New Jersey income tax return.Brown said the fraud involved hundreds of thousands of dollar...