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88 doctors may be shams
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published August 3, 2007
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - U.S. federal agents arrested dozens of doctors accused of obtaining medical licenses through fraud or bribery, carrying out sweeping raids across Puerto Rico on Thursday. A federal grand jury indicted 88 doctors following an investigation into members of the U.S. Caribbean territory's medical licensing board, who allegedly altered low-scoring tests to certify unqualified candidates. The doctors, mostly Puerto Ricans who studied medicine in the Dominican Republic, Mexico or Cuba, paid board members bribes of as much as $10,000, according to the indictment. At least 75 were practicing medicine in Puerto Rico, authorities said. At least five U.S. states recognize Puerto Rican medical licenses: Florida, Arizona, New York, Texas and Virginia.
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