Part 3: The price of pain: Indictments allege a massive compound cream scam: Prosecutors in the Orange County District Attorney's office call it one of the largest cases they've taken on: 20,000 exhibits, 15 defendants and more than $100 million in alleged overbilling in an alleged workers' compensation fraud scheme centered around compound creams and allegations of over $25 million in kickbacks to doctors, chiropractors and pharamcists to write, fill and bill for compounded pain creams (includes FBI recording, a chart of the players involved, pictures from the compounding pharmacy, and part of transcript with emails)

This is the third in a series on the compound cream industry. You can read Part One here and Part Two here.

Prosecutors in the Orange County District Attorney's office call it one of the largest cases they've taken on: 20,000 exhibits, 15 defendants and more than $100 million in alleged overbilling in an alleged workers' compensation fraud scheme centered around compound creams.

An Inland Empire businessman, Kareem Ahmed, is accused of masterminding the alleged scam. Prosecutors say he paid a dozen doctors, chiropractors and pharmacists a total of $25 million in kickbacks in exchange for writing, filling and billing for large numbers of compound cream prescriptions.

KPCC first reported on the indictments by the Orange County Grand Jury in June. The defendants are scheduled to be arraigned in Santa Ana on Friday.

What makes this case unusual was the volume of business, according to Assistant District Attorney Scott Zidbeck. more