OAKLAND, Calif. - Walgreens will pay $7.5 million to settle with California authorities after an employee was criminally charged with impersonating a pharmacist and illegally filling more than 745,000 prescriptions in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prosecutors said that from late 2006 through 2017, Le used the license numbers of registered pharmacists in order to impersonate them and dispense prescriptions at Walgreens stores in Santa Clara and Alameda counties. Le herself didn’t have a pharmacist license, prosecutors said. The district attorneys in both counties filed a consumer protection action against Walgreens. In a statement Monday, Walgreens said Le hasn’t worked for the company since 2017.

Source: thestar February 04, 2020 00:33 UTC