Two pharmacy technicians received sentences including three years of probation for their role in a scheme to defraud Medicaid by billing for expensive HIV/AIDS prescriptions that were never dispensed.

Two pharmacy technicians from Essex County, N.J., pleaded guilty for their role in a scheme to defraud Medicaid by buying prescription forms for HIV/AIDS drugs from indigent patients.

Three pharmacies and seven people from Essex County, N.J., were indicted by a state grand jury on charges they allegedly submitted more than $2.3 million dollars in false Medicaid claims, according to the New Jersey Attorney General’s office.