NEW YORK -- The owner of four medical clinics in Manhattan and the Bronx and six doctors have been sentenced to jail for defrauding the Medicaid system of millions of dollars.
U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White said Monday Mohammed Sohail Khan was sentenced Friday to 60 months in jail by Judge John Martin.
Khan pleaded guilty and cooperated in the investigation after he was arrested in Nov. 1991. He was ordered to make restitution of $8 million.
According to White, Khan opened a walk-in clinic in Manhattan and three in the Bronx beginning in 1990.
The homeless, and AIDS-suffering drug addicts, would come to the clinics and undergo unnecessary medical tests and procedures, and then receive prescriptions for expensive drugs.
The clinics would bill Medicaid for the tests and procedures, and the so-called patients would resell the drugs on the street. Some of the drugs were then resold to pharmacies, who dispensed them to consumers.
In addition to Khan, Dr. Audrey Sadaphal and Dr. Charles Ada Yobo, pleaded guilty before trial. Yobo received a year and a day in jail, and was ordered to pay $1 million in restitution. Sadaphal received three months in jail and three months home arrest and was ordered to pay back $313,000.
Dr. Gilbert Ross, convicted of racketeering, mail fraud and conspiracy, was sentenced to 47 months in jail, $40,000 in forfeiture and restitution of $612,855.
Doctors Deborah Williams, Rosaly Saba Khalil, and Lancaster Lo, were tried and convicted of racketeering, mail fraud, money laundering and conspiracy. Williams and Khalil were jailed for 41 months, Lo for 37 months. They were ordered to pay back amounts up to $1.9 million and to forefeit amounts from $50,000 to $95,000.