The owner of a pharmacy in Pharr and three others involved in a $110 million kickback scheme have been sentenced.

John Aguedo Rodriguez, 55, the owner of Pharr Family Pharmacy; Alex Flores Jr., 55; Hector De La Cruz Jr., 54, who operated Flores & De La Cruz Financial Solutions, LLC; and Mohammad Imtiaz Chowdhury, 44, were sentenced Thursday for their roles in a conspiracy to pay kickbacks in exchange for prescription referrals, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas announced in a news release.

Rodriguez was sentenced to five years in prison while Flores and De La Cruz were given nearly four years.

Mohammad Imtiaz Chowdhury, who owned the Center for Pain Management in Edinburg, was sentenced to over two years in prison.

He had pleaded guilty earlier this

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