Prosecutors have filed drug-related charges against six employees of a nursing home. According to the office of the State Bureau of Narcotics, the employees are accused of calling in fraudulent prescriptions to pharmacies to obtain powerful pain medications. 

Officials say there is no evidence any residents were deprived of their medications, only that additional, fraudulent prescriptions were being called in. The employees would then sell the medication on the street. Charges were filed against the 6 individuals including conspiracy to obtain controlled substances by fraud and Medicaid fraud. For more, read the story.

Robert W. Carter, Jr. is a Virginia attorney whose law practice is dedicated to protecting the rights of the victims of nursing home and assisted living neglect and abuse in Richmond, Roanoke, Norfolk, Lynchburg, Danville, Charlottesville, and across Virginia.