NYC Doctors Face Criminal Charges of Running Opioid Pill Mill

A pair of New York City doctors face criminal charges alleging they ran an opioid “pill mill” that defrauded Medicaid out of $5 million.

Ilya Smuglin of Rego Park, N.Y., and Clarisse Clemons of Rockville Centre, N.Y., are accused of using clinics in Harlem and the Bronx to generate bogus prescriptions for the painkiller Suboxone so drug dealers could sell them on the street, New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) announced May 6.

The charges are the latest in a series of a criminal cases brought by the attorney general’s office to curb illegal sales of opioid painkillers.

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