LOS ANGELES—A former Orange County pharmacist was sentenced April 3 to 15 years behind bars for her role in a healthcare fraud scheme that bilked the U.S. military’s healthcare plan out of more than $11 million.
Sandy Mai Trang Nguyen, 43, of Irvine, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II, who also ordered her to pay over $11,000,000 in restitution, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Nguyen was convicted in November in Los Angeles of 21 counts of healthcare fraud, and one count of obstruction of a federal audit.
The scheme involved the filling of more than 1,000 bogus prescriptions for compounded medications at the expense of the Tricare health care plan….