The doctor will have to pay more than $2 million in restitution and surrender his medical license.
— all for personal gain," Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement. "Today, he was held accountable and ordered to give back what he took from the people of California. Abuses of power — whether big or small -— will never be tolerated by the California Department of Justice. As the people's attorney, I will continue to protect the programs designed to help our most vulnerable residents.
El-Nachef helped "two convicted felons, Steve Fleming and Oscar Abrons, in a scheme to obtain expensive pharmaceuticals that were sold on the illicit market," according to court papers filed by the state Attorney General's Office when the doctor was charged in March of 2020.'EDD' rapper who bragged about getting rich from unemployment benefits fraud to plead guilty
El-Nachef "wrote prescriptions for HIV medications, anti-psychotics, and opioids to over 1,000 medical beneficiaries brought to him by Fleming and Abrons," the court papers said. "El-Nachef never conducted good-faith medical exams or otherwise validated that the patients actually needed the drugs he prescribed. A vast majority of the patients did not have HIV, nor had a legitimate need for the psychotic medications or controlled drugs.
The scheme was carried out from June 2014 through April 2016, according to prosecutors. The doctor was prescribing the drugs at two clinics -- one in Anaheim and another in Los Angeles, prosecutor said. The doctor's attorney, Christopher Jude Bou Saeed, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.that I have read and agree