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Criminal

Jan. 9, 2016

Ladera Heights doctor sentenced in prescription drug scam

A doctor's prescription pad was a blank checkbook for a cartel of crooks who billed federal and state medical programs for $20 million in bogus prescription drug claims.

By Tim O'Connor
Daily Journal Staff Writer

A doctor's prescription pad was a blank checkbook for a cartel of crooks who billed federal and state medical programs for $20 million in bogus prescription drug claims.

Dr. Kenneth Johnson, 49, of Ladera Heights, was sentenced Wednesday in Los Angeles federal court to nine years in federal prison for signing more than 20,000 blank prescriptions that his collaborators - n...

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