Undercover video shows how prescription drugs in Florida are adulterated, misbranded in black market
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2024
- Video taken by an undercover government informant shows a woman, her son and husband wiping labels off prescription medication bottles in a South Florida apartment.
They remove the labels and reattach the information packet to the bottles that contain expensive medication including HIV meds that patients chose to sell.
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General drug diversion is just one of the ways criminals steal billions of dollars from Medicare each year and unfortunately, South Florida is the epicenter of Medicare fraud.
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Damn pretty greasy. Does anybody have a real job anymore? It’s all just scammers.😢
Y lady thinks she’s the it scamming for 20$ a day ppl are sad asf
How are you not surprise xtreme form of capitalism and poverty bring this type of acts. Everyone trying to get that quick dollar. Everything costing to much you have to side hustle.
Half and half I think😊 Tru talk though
@@felipenunez2058exactly why I sold weed as a kid. We were poor and I was trying to eat.
Rick Scott scammed hundreds of millions of dollars and yall made him Governor and then Senator after his company was convicted.
This should b a Felony with a life sentence!!
But leaving billions worth of weapons isn't a scam. Insider trading not a scam to you. Selling kids, not a scam.. But these people are the issue
why?
So these wholesalers and pharmacies are just buying drugs off the streets? Sounds like they're more of a danger than that family, although they need to spend a long time in jail.
Exactly.. the pharmacy is the main liability here. They are the actual licensed business that is knowingly buying from side hustlers instead of from the manufacturer or wholesalers. They are facilitating the entire scam.
. . Scumbag pharmacists are bilking the Medicare program, fact✔
This been going on since the 90's , ya'll stop playing.
Who you telling it’s old old news!!!
@@kartiersupremewhite330maybe because the word new is in news 😅
First addiction... now they are cheating on each other. smh.
That’s disparate drugys for ya 😂
Isn't it illegal for the companies to buy back these drugs that have already been dispersed?. I mean the family did something illegal but isn't the system buying these drugs back from families like this? How is that legal
Taking the label off makes them look unused, then they bundle them up and then they look like wholesale would be my guess. I would think they would need an inside man to make this work though.
This is deeper than we know!! This needs to be investigated with passion and tenacity! I guarantee there is more going on
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Sounds like Rick Scott is stealing from Medicare again!😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Damn the weed dealers get 25 + yrs
2-3 Years ?
Crime Definitely Pays Nowadays.
Raise the penalties for this type of crime.
Ripping off the Medicare/Medicaid/Medical system is a South Florida speciality. All the same people.
THEY HAVE DONE IT FOREVER!
Most of them in government.
This is why I only get my prescriptions from CVS or Walgreens.
Why are the wholesale companies not arrested? Why are the pharmacies not investigated? Sounds like they are trying to put the blame on elderly and handicapped people who are just trying to afford to live.
Can you point to the part of the video where they try to blame the elderly and handicap?
Florida = a sunny place for shady people
It's the love of money, the root of all kinds of evil.
I think you mean greed. Money is a recent invention.
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Drug manufacturers should print drug info on the plastic containers instead of paper labels which can be peeled off and easily altered.
Drug manufacturers make it in bulk, the pharmacist counts it out individually based on how and what you need. They also receive bottles and blank labels in bulk.
I know of people in NYC who receive free medications from Medicaid and then sell them on the streets.
Genius.
Par for the course in Florida.
There should b a label that cant b altered!!
Geez where's that wonderful governor thats been so helpful to FL???
Where's ya man Andrew Gillum?
Our Wonderful Governor is busy fighting off Drag Queens at Libraries and erasing Black History out of School books instead. You know the real important stuff we Floridians care about!
@@TUKByV He is not the Governor so why do you care where GILLUM is?
Must be family night
So this is where those stupid "little blue or yellow pills" commercials come from...
Get out of that state going under!
Put these pharmacy names out there.
The whole salers are the ones that should be charged not the other people because they would take their meds if they couldn't sell them. It hurts the poor people the most.
Well this is Uniparty behavior if I've ever seen it 😂
Extremely interesting and informative.
Your whole state is a crime scene.
It’s drug companies being allowed to charge THAT much for life saving medication that people are desperate for that is the issue here.
Obviously! This wouldn’t be happening if there wasn’t a MASSIVE profit per bottle.. it wouldn’t be happening if people weren’t absolutely desperate to get medication at a discount because they could never afford it otherwise.
Insurance and the system is also the problem here that promote this. Drugs costs are crazy!
Cubans lol
They need to go to jail for life
These people can laugh their way to the bank because they play us against each other with different “sides” And “colors”.
Why is it all the fake drugs and craziness come thru Florida?
Because it’s Floriduh.
They don't speak English? Huh.
What a shame
Here kiddies 👶🏾. Get your candy 🍬.
Why are wholesalers allowed to buy drugs from individual persons??
This is scary
De Santas is sure effective in running Florida!
2-3 years? They would get more time for getting caught with a joint in various states
rick scott didn't go to prison he went to the united states senate
sad part is that we have people in our government that are being charged with the same thing. the shame is that because of their position not a damn thing will be done!!!!
GOOD OLE FLORIDA
2 to 3 years for federal fraud sounds right.
Mobster Nation. ☢️
They should reveal these ppl nationality.
Most Likely Cuban.
Healthcare so expensive people buying stuff on the black market
Double check your meds. Pills are identifiable. Use your instincts
230 million?
CUBICHES!?
Somethings fishy here...
If u can opt out of paying taxes, you won’t be butt hurt by stories like this…
Robert Courtney altered 98000 scripts.. gets out early ..
So ask your congressman come the Federal bureau of prisons doesn't have to answer to the three congressmen that think he needs to stay in prison
They get paid.🤯😒🤯😒🤯😒
We already know the folks who do this. Is from Hialeah
Uncle Sam wants his cut
Gente Floja.
Yeah and they took from canada we will most likely do without. Makes me angry 😡
Florida us a banana republic.
No worries, trump will pardon them all
Please… when I was a kid not everyone can afford certain things and if a family member had the medicine and they didn’t take it it would be given to the person who needed it.
Disgusting that’s why I don’t have anything to do with healthcare. I don’t care if I’m dying if I’ve got cancer I don’t care if I have whatever I’m not taking no pills. I’m not going to no hospital. I’m not having nothing to do with the healthcare I’ll lay down in the snow and freeze to death before I will go anywhere near healthcare if I had cancer, I would lay down in the snow and freeze to death. In the middle of winter I will not be pumped with drugs. I will not be in the hospital. I will not be in the hospice I will not do any of it I will lay down the snow and freeze to death, and nobody will know where the hell I’m at cause I ain’t telling nobody when I get sick that they’re not gonna manipulate me in any way shape or form
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Oh Snaps
So why are they acting like the drugs are less powerful or more dangerous? They are committing insurance fraud, but I don't see how that effects the potency? This is a financial crime, not a violent crime.
If
It's dangerous because they're mislabeling the damn drugs that they are selling back, and a lot of them are out of date, not to mention using lighter fluid to take the labels off seeps through the medication bottles contaminating those pills. The bottles aren't made from a plastic type that won't absorb that kind of shite!!!
That's why!!!! SMDH🙄
3 years for 10 millions dollars. We'll is ok.
FBI don't worry about this. Busy working on Trump.
CESSPOOL florida
Can anyone tell what language they are speaking?
Desantis is worried more about children's books than this
How's ya man Andrew Gillum doing today?
This is Rhonda Santos' legacy: a completely lawless Florida.
Welcome to Cuba Miami usual suspect
Just end Medicare…. If the government is going to make it a habit to punish the many for the actions of the few maybe start with the things that cost taxpayers money rather than trying to take away the rights of law abiding citizens to defend themselves.
Yes start with the military since they can’t account for where half the money they get goes
Good ol republican Florida
Horrible people! They screw it up for those who really need the help!
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