Scheme to defraud the state by unlawfully selling prescriptions · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 190.70 Scheme to defraud the state by unlawfully selling
prescriptions.
A person is guilty of a scheme to defraud the state by unlawfully selling prescriptions when he or she engages, with intent to defraud the state, in a scheme constituting a systematic, ongoing course of conduct to make, sell, deliver for sale or offer for sale one or more prescriptions and so obtains goods or services from the state with a value in excess of one thousand dollars or causes the state to reimburse another in excess of one thousand dollars for the delivery of such goods or services.
Scheme to defraud the state by unlawfully selling prescriptions is a class A misdemeanor.
With intent to defraud the state, a person commits this offense by carrying out a systematic, ongoing scheme to make, sell, deliver, or offer at least 1 prescription and thereby obtaining state goods or services worth more than $1,000, or causing state reimbursement of more than $1,000 for them. ★ It is a class A misdemeanor.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.