It was a scheme that involved more than $20 million using anti-psychotic drugs, the black market and repeated fraudulent billings of the government.

From September 2009 through October 2011, Medicare and Medi-Cal, the Golden State‘s Medicaid program, were falsely billed for more than $20 million worth of prescriptions for the costly medicines.

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