This drug ring was a family affair.

A Staten Island crew busted for selling illegal pharmaceuticals – including 5,000 Oxycodone pills in one year – included a 23-year-old woman and her 50-year-old mother, authorities said today.

The ring was led by Michael Mancusi, 27, who faked injuries from a car accident so Medicaid and his auto insurance would pay for the narcotics his gang later sold on the street, according to state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

“We have shut down a dangerous scheme that dealt illegal prescription drugs at the taxpayers’ expense,” said Schneiderman.

Mancusi went “doctor-shopping” until he scored 52 prescriptions that scored him 5,890 tablets of Oxycodone, 1,170 tablets of Xanax, and 205 fentanyl patches – which addicts stick on their body to get high.

The drug ring then sold the drugs to users throughout New York City and Long Island, with about $84,000 in sales over the last year, according to the Attorney General.

Mancusi and his girlfriend Shannon Daniell each face 20 years in prison, while Daniell’s mother and two other sidekicks face lesser sentences.

Though Mancusi claimed to be completely disabled, investigators watched him use a leafblower, lift a heavy safe, and drive a car.

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