A Maryland man pleaded guilty Friday to running a fraud scheme in which he impersonated doctors to create bogus e-prescribing accounts that generated phony prescriptions for narcotics that were dispensed at pharmacies in Los Angeles and elsewhere and resold on the street for “significant” profits.

Benjamin Jamal Washington, 25, pleaded guilty in Los Angeles federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, one count of aggravated identity theft, and one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

The defendant admitted that after obtaining doctors’ personal information, he and his accomplices acquired drivers’ licenses in their names and paid corrupt telephone company employees for access to physicians’ phone numbers, acc

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