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The defendants paid kickbacks to patient recruiters and physicians to prescribe the drugs, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Family members identify the victim as Jaequan Aldredge, 42. He was shot in the 121000 block of S. Vermont Avenue.

Print Los Angeles County sheriff’s detectives on Wednesday night were investigating the killing of a man in South Los Angeles. Deputies responded about 7:30 p.m. to a shooting in the 12100 block of S. Vermont Avenue, where they found a man who had been shot multiple times, Sheriff’s Lt. Barry Hall said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The man was standing on a sidewalk or in a driveway on Vermont Avenue when he was shot, Hall said. Authorities had no suspect descriptions Wednesday ni...