Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit Plays Key Role in Largest Ever Criminal Enforcement Action Targeting Opioid Distributors

Attorney General Ken Paxton's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit Plays Key Role in Largest Ever Criminal Enforcement Action Targeting Opioid Distributors

HOUSTON - Attorney General Ken Paxton's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit played a pivotal role in an investigation leading to the successful federal prosecution of nine pharmaceutical distributor executives, sales representatives, and brokers involved in the unlawful distribution of nearly 70 million opioid pills and over 30 million doses of commonly abused prescription drugs. The drugs, valued at over $1.3 billion on the black market, were sold to Houston-area pill-mill pharmacies, contributing significantly to the deadly national opioid crisis.

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