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🚨BREAKING: U.S. Attorney Gregory Kehoe announced a Jacksonville “community” pharmacy used free cell phones to lure low-income residents, then billed Medicare and Medicaid $51 million for HIV drugs those people never asked for. The scheme set up tents in Jacksonville neighborhoods offering government-sponsored free phones. Once people signed up, the defendants used their information to generate fake referrals for HIV post-exposure prophylaxis medications. Prosecutors say the company paid $200 per referral. Most of the people who later received the expensive HIV medications were shocked and threw the drugs away. Here’s what investigators say the key players pocketed: - Charlie Griffin: $14 million - Albert Chester II: $5 million - Jonathan Gholston: $2 million - Ethelbert Nwanegbo: took 10% of the laundered money Nurse practitioner Rashan Jones admitted in her plea deal that she wrote prescriptions for people she had “never seen, spoken with, or performed any manner of evaluation on” and was paid about $422,000. If the government can absorb this level of fraud on a regular basis, Americans are being taxed far too much.