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Black Market
HIV Drugs Case
Anti Kickback
Statute US
Gets 68 Months
on Payano
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 19 – Albert
Yagudayev was arrested for
anti-kickback violations as
part of a health care fraud
conspiracy.
He had three
co-defendants also on October
20, 2023 brought before
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrate Judge James L.
Cott. Inner City Press was
there, the only media in the
SDNY Mag Court.
The other
three was presented and bailed
together, each secured by a
different property. Yagudayev
went later and last, but also
received the lowest bond,
$50,000. None are to
work in pharmacies pending
trial or dispostion.
The original
complaint concerns blackmarket
HIV medications in The
Bronx.
They were
arraigned before the assigned
District Judge Mary Kay
Vyskocil on October 26.
Jump cut to
August 19, 2024. A
co-defendant added in a
superseding indictment was set
to plead guilty to violating
the Anti Kickback Statute. But
when Judge Vyskocil read him
the five year maximim he said,
That's only if I go to trial
and am found guilty, right?
That's not
how it works, he was told. His
retained counsel, who also
represents this defendant's
son in another HIV drug case -
the prosecutors said
anti-psychotic medication were
substituted for HIV drugs to
unwitting patients - said his
client was just nervous. They
went out in the hall to talk,
and Inner City Press went down
a flight to another floor. A
check of the courtroom a bit
later found it empty - the
plea had fallen apart... It
was rescheduled for September
3 at 11 am.
By contrast, when
co-defendant Shamanov came to
plead guilty to conspiracy to
commit health care fraud on
August 26 - Inner City Press
was there - the plea was
accepted.
On October 22
co-defendant Gavrielof asked
for 18 months home confinement
when he is sentenced on
October 29.
On October 29 he
was sentenced to 57 months.
On November 14
the US asked for 72 months on
co-defendant Payano on
November 19.
On November 19
Payano was sentenced to 68
months with R-DAP recommended.
The overall case
is US v. Aminov, et al.,
23-cr-110 (Vyskocil)
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