PODIATRISTS AND THE LAW

07/27/2010     

AZ Podiatrist Indicted on Drug and Fraud Charges

A 104-count indictment accusing Corina Maya Hollander a Tucson podiatrist and seven others of operating a criminal syndicate involving prescription fraud was unsealed in Pima County Superior Court on Monday. The eight defendants face charges ranging from conspiracy and participating in a criminal syndicate to fraud, trafficking in the identity of another person, forgery, and acquisition of a narcotic drug by fraud.

Assistant Attorney General Christina Vejar said Hollander progressed from writing fraudulent prescriptions for a painkiller and anti-anxiety drug for co-workers/roommates Garner and Morris to writing fraudulent prescriptions in patient and family members' names.

Source: Kim Smith, Arizona Star [7/20/10]