Houston Man Gets Four Years For Role In Oxycodone Ring

The patients were phony, but the pills were anything but. From January 2013 through at least July 29, 2014, Fahim Ahmed Khan recruited patients, including homeless people, to medical clinics in three cities in a scheme designed to profit from Oxycodone prescriptions.

Fahim Ahmed Khan, 59, was sentenced on Friday to more than four years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater, who also ordered the payment of a $17,500 fine.

As reported by the Houston Chronicle, Khan was one of more than two dozen individuals indicted in Texas and accused of procuring narcotics prescriptions through fraudulent means. Khan pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy on August.

In the operation, according to court documents, Khan earned $420 to $600 in cash for each patient for whom a prescription was written. The pills were then resold.

Khan, according to the documents, worked with Muhammad Faridi and Dr. Richard Andrews, with the McAllen Medical Clinic, located in Dallas. The two men were listed in the documents as Khan's co-conspirators.

Khan is free on bail, and has been ordered to report for his sentence on Sept. 5.

» See the story at the Houston Chronicle

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