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N.Y. Penal Law § 190.70: Scheme to defraud the state by unlawfully selling prescriptions

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  1. Penal Law
  2. Part 3. Specific Offenses
  3. Title K. Offenses Involving Fraud
  4. Article 190. Other Frauds

§ 190.70 Scheme to defraud the state by unlawfully selling

prescriptions.

A person is guilty of a scheme to defraud the state by unlawfully

selling prescriptions when he or she engages, with intent to defraud the

state, in a scheme constituting a systematic, ongoing course of conduct

to make, sell, deliver for sale or offer for sale one or more

prescriptions and so obtains goods or services from the state with a

value in excess of one thousand dollars or causes the state to reimburse

another in excess of one thousand dollars for the delivery of such goods

or services.

Scheme to defraud the state by unlawfully selling prescriptions is a

class A misdemeanor.

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