The co-owner and the administrator of a Union City, New Jersey, pharmacy admitted their roles in conspiracies to defraud pharmacy benefit managers and healthcare benefit providers, including Medicare and Medicaid, of more than $65 million and to pay kickbacks and bribes to healthcare professionals and their staffs in exchange for referrals of prescriptions. Samuel “Sam” Khaimov, 52, and his wife, Yana Shtindler, 48, both of Glen Head, New York, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Michael A. Shipp in Trenton federal court. Khaimov pleaded guilty to two counts of a superseding indictment charging him with conspiring to commit healthcare fraud and conspiring to violate the federal anti-kickback statute. Shtindler pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit healthcare fraud. Khaimov and Shtindler’s codefendants, Ruben Sevumyants of Marlboro, New Jersey, and Alex Fleyshmakher of Morganville, New Jersey, have already pleaded guilty to counts in the superseding indictment and are awaiting sentencing.
