detnews.com on July 28, 2011 reported that Gwendolyn Washington, a Southfield doctor convicted in a Detroit Public Schools corruption case, pleaded guilty today in a separate case alleging health care fraud and prescription drug trafficking. Washington, 67, pleaded guilty in federal court to four felony counts and faces up to 20 years in prison when sentenced by U.S. District Judge Paul Borman on Oct. 5. She was charged in March with submitting claims to Medicare for procedures received by patients who were dead. She also was accused of writing phony prescriptions for powerful pain medications, which were sold illegally on the black market.

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