Galloway Man Is 11th to Plead Guilty to Role in Compound Cream Scheme

A Galloway, New Jersey, man is the 11th person to plead guilty to participating in a scheme to sell expensive prescription compound creams to public employees who did not need them, defrauding the state's pharmacy benefits administrator of $50 million in the process. Andrew Gerstel, 39, lodged his guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Robert Kugler in Camden on Monday. Gerstel was part of a group of pharmaceutical sales representatives who learned that the New Jersey public employees' health plan covered the expensive prescription creams their company sold. From January 2015 to Apri...