Federal authorities charged seven New Jersey residents including a cop and multiple firefighters Friday and accused them of key roles in a vast $50 million prescription fraud scheme that enlisted government and school employees to seek unnecessary speciality medications for ailments including pain, scarring, fungal and libido problems.
More than a dozen people have previously been charged in the expanding probe of prescriptions for compounded medications, which are individually made for patients at a much higher costs. The latest roundup on Friday by FBI targeted the alleged ringleaders and those who helped recruit government and school workers into the scam, authorities said.