- 11 - officer and shareholder of CSM, and Ahmed forged Elkholy’s signature on CSM’s articles of incorporation. Ahmed also forged Elkholy’s signature and used Elkholy’s name on other CSM documents in order to obtain for CSM a Medi-Cal provider number and an employee ID number, to obtain credit from vendors, to file corporate Federal income tax returns, and to open bank accounts. From the summer of 1996 through April of 1998, Elkholy, without being made aware of his nominal “ownership” interest in CSM, provided certain consulting services to CSM for which he received from CSM payments of $2,000 a month. In September of 1996, Ahmed opened another pharmacy under the K & M name as a “closed-door” pharmacy in the same neighborhood as Ahmed’s other pharmacies and as the CSM medical clinic. This third pharmacy did not have walk-in customers or regular business hours. Instead, this pharmacy operated as an overflow pharmacy for the other two pharmacies. Whenever the other pharmacies had a backlog of prescriptions to fill, Ahmed would contact an on-call pharmacist who would come into the closed-door pharmacy and fill the prescriptions which the other pharmacies were not able to fill.Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Next
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