MORRIS COUNTY — Nestor E. Jaime, 36, Pine Brook, owner of Fabio’s Pharmacy in Paterson, has been indicted by federal prosecutors for allegedly defrauding Medicare of $2,505,754 by billing for high-cost prescription drugs that were neither dispensed nor properly prescribed.
The indictment is part of a massive nationwide “health care fraud takedown” announced on June 30, 2025. The takedown targeted 324 defendants in schemes totaling over $14.6 billion in fraudulent losses.
Jaime is accused of:
- Submitting knowingly false claims for high-cost medications without prescriptions.
- Pocketing reimbursements despite no drugs being dispensed.
Meanwhile, in a separate action tied to the same DOJ sweep, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center agreed to a $250,000 settlement. Prosecutors alleged that, from January 2018 to December 2019, doctors in the hospital’s Heart Transplant Program failed to disclose critical medical information to patients and their families, leading to unnecessary treatments.
Taejin Kim, 43, of River Vale, was charged by information with conspiracy to commit health care fraud in connection with a scheme to submit false and fraudulent claims to Amtrak’s health care plan for services that were never provided and were medically unnecessary. As alleged in the information, Kim, a licensed physical therapist, conspired to use Amtrak employees’ insurance information to submit false and fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary services that were never provided to the Amtrak employees. Amtrak paid approximately $2,253,453 on these claims.
