N.Y. PEN Law § 190.70
This is the official text of N.Y. PEN Law § 190.70, part of New York’s Penal Law — defines crimes and punishments in New York.
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Scheme to defraud the state by unlawfully selling prescriptions
Official statutory text
§ 190.70 Scheme to defraud the state by unlawfully selling\n prescriptions.\n A person is guilty of a scheme to defraud the state by unlawfully\nselling prescriptions when he or she engages, with intent to defraud the\nstate, in a scheme constituting a systematic, ongoing course of conduct\nto make, sell, deliver for sale or offer for sale one or more\nprescriptions and so obtains goods or services from the state with a\nvalue in excess of one thousand dollars or causes the state to reimburse\nanother in excess of one thousand dollars for the delivery of such goods\nor services.\n Scheme to defraud the state by unlawfully selling prescriptions is a\nclass A misdemeanor.\n
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