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Associated Press - August 8, 2009
U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungaro on Friday also ordered 65-year-old Dr. Keith Russell to pay back the government $3.1 million, and 50-year-old Jorge Luis Pacheco to repay $2.6 million. Another physician's assistant, 43-year-old Eda Marietta Milanes, was sentenced to five years in prison and $3.1 million in restitution.
The three and another Miami physician were convicted in March after a federal probe.
They are among a growing host of health care providers in South Florida bilking the federal health system out of millions in false claims for bogus HIV treatment.
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