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Former owner of Chicago medical clinic guilty of selling opioid prescriptions to patients who lacked medical need for the drugs

… Galvani, wrote prescriptions for the powerful opioids without conducting an appropriate physical examination or … outside the usual course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose.  The charge carries a …
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Interpreter in Federal Criminal Investigation Charged with Disclosing Investigation and Court-Ordered Wiretap to Targeted Drug Dealer

… instances such as these we will ensure justice is served without delay.” According to the federal complaint unsealed … contracts never to disclose any investigative information without authorization and to notify DEA if she had any …
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Physician Assistant sentenced to 10 years in prison

… were outside the usual course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose.  The evidence showed … powerful narcotics outside the usual course of practice and without a medical purpose.  This criminal behavior …
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Detroit Area Pharmacist/Pharmacy Owner Sentenced To 17 Years For Drug Conspiracy And Health Care Fraud

… would also write prescriptions for controlled substances, without regard to medical necessity, which would be filled … amount of $1.5 million.  Defendant Patel, who has been held without bond since his arrest on August 2, 2011, will …
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Former Kentucky Doctor Pleads Guilty To Illegal Distribution Of 25,000 Controlled Substance Prescription Pills

… LLC, to distribute thousands of oxycodone pills to patients without a legitimate medical purpose.  Bofill acknowledged … and, in some instances, he even signed off on prescriptions without actually ever seeing the patients.  Patients who …
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Three Sentenced In Opioid "Pill Mill" Case, Including Dallas Doctor

… wrote or signed prescriptions for 30mg oxycodone pills without conducting medical exams of patients, without determining there was a legitimate medical purpose …
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Twin Brother Pharmacists Each Sentenced To 42 Months In Prison For Defrauding Patients And Insurance Companies Of $1.5 Million

… insurance companies for the fully filled prescription. Without informing the patients, the conspirators substituted … also filled outstanding refills on a given prescription without the patients' knowledge and then billed Medicaid and …
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Pair Of Brothers Among Five Charged In Conspiracy To Traffic Guns To New Jersey From South Carolina

… are each charged with conspiracy to traffic in firearms without a license. Tribbett and a sixth defendant: Lewis … to the arrests. The conspiracy to traffic in firearms without a license charge carries a maximum potential penalty …
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Joint Operation With Lake County Sheriff's Office Results In Major Cocaine Seizure

… of a Controlled (Class 1) • Possession of a Firearm without a Firearm Owner’s Identification (Class A … of a Controlled (Class 1) • Possession of a Firearm without a Firearm Owner’s Identification (Class A …
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Suspended Physician Sentenced To 1 A½ Years For Illegally Dispensing Oxycodone And Falsely Billing Medicare In Undercover Probe

… including home visits and diagnostic testing and review, without regard to whether the claimed services were … including ultrasound and autonomic nervous system testing, without regard to medical necessity. He further prescribed …
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Charleston Drug Gang Busted

… defendants would face a mandatory term of life imprisonment without parole on conviction. These are Arnold Bellinger, … minimum twenty sentence and a maximum of life imprisonment without parole. Michael Hayes also faces an additional …
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Newnan Dentist Sentenced To Prison For Unlawfully Distributing Controlled Substances

… provider, dispensing controlled substances to his patients without any regard for medical necessity." According to … these patients routinely received prescriptions from Maddux without being examined, and many stated that prescriptions …
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Owner Of Fashion District Clothing Company Pleads Guilty To Customs, Immigration And Money Laundering Offenses

… collect proceeds from their drug sales in the United States without having to take the risk of smuggling large amounts of U.S. currency across the Mexican border and without having to wire the funds through financial …
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Two Doctors Face Federal Charges For Supplying Drug Trafficking Gang Members With Narcotics Prescriptions

… Federal Charges For Supplying Drug Trafficking Gang Members With Narcotics Prescriptions August 29, 2016 Los Angeles … they issued prescriptions for narcotics and sedatives without a medical purpose.  The doctors - Sonny Oparah, 75, …  In most instances, the doctors sold the prescriptions without ever examining the undercover officer or cooperating …
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South Carolina Man Sentenced To Eight Years In Prison For Shooting A DEA Special Agent

… returning fire, the agents took the defendant into custody without further incident. Their poise under fire reminds us … grabbed a laser-sighted pistol and fired it into a wall without ever identifying a target. ; Robinson then put on …
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Pawtucket Man Sentenced To 7 A½ Years In Federal Prison For Manufacturing And Distributing Meth From Newport Motel Room

… may top the list.  Meth labs are notorious for exploding without warning, and it has devastating health effects on … defendant here manufactured and sold meth with impunity, without any concern whatsoever for the buyers of his product …
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Former Doctor Sentenced For Illegally Prescribing Pain Medication

… hydrocodone, oxycodone, and oxymorphone, for individuals without conducting legitimate medical examinations. In 2010, … substance pain medication at the request of the individuals without conducting a thorough medical exam. In addition, on …
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Two Springfield, Missouri, Men Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison For Methamphetamine Conspiracy

… Springfield, Missouri, was sentenced to 21 years in prison without parole.  Brandon A. House, 33, of Ash Grove, Missouri, was sentenced to 20 years in prison without parole.  Both individuals were convicted and …
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Philadelphia Doctor Charged With Running Pill Mill

… and then were given prescriptions for controlled substances without there being any legitimate medical purpose for the … office staff would give the refill orders to Gosnell, who, without seeing the customer, would write the requested …
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Jury Convicts Columbia Man Of Marijuana Conspiracy

… mandatory minimum sentence of five years in federal prison without parole, up to a sentence of 45 years in federal prison without parole. A sentencing hearing will be scheduled after …
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Undercover Operation Reveals Inmates Plan To Commit Murder

… County Court Judge Brian D. Burns and returned to the OCCF without bail.  If convicted Godfrey faces up to 32 years in … while depriving citizens the right to live in a community without fear, intimidation and violence. The versatile …
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Visalia Doctor Indicted For Illegally Dispensing Oxycodone

… prescription drugs, including oxycodone and hydrocodone, without medical necessity. Brown sold prescriptions to … and the distribution of highly addictive prescription drugs without medical justification is a violation of that trust,” …
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Federal Prosecutors File 20 Cases This Year Against Alleged Drug Dealers Who Sold Fentanyl that Caused Fatal Drug Overdoses

… so far this year targeting fentanyl dealers who are charged with selling fentanyl and fentanyl-laced pills that directly … DEA agents have established collaborative relationships with local law enforcement agencies across the seven … federal magistrate judge ordered all four defendants jailed without bond. The defendants pleaded not guilty to the …
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Federal health care fraud takedown in Northeastern U.S. results in 54 defendants charged and convicted

… Towanda R. Thorne-James Domestic New Jersey with offices in Atlantic City, Camden, Monmouth/Ocean, … opioids. The cases prosecuted by this Office in connection with the takedown reflect all of the different facets of our … codeine outside the usual course of medical practice and without a legitimate purpose. He wrote these allegedly …
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DEA Washington Division Announces the Seizure of Over 8 Million of Deadly Doses of Fentanyl in 2022

… deadly dose. Fake pills laced with fentanyl are readily available on social media. According to the Centers for … deadly dose. Fake pills laced with fentanyl are readily available on social media. According to the Centers for …
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District Attorney Vance And White House Drug Policy Director Kerlikowske Host Panel Discussion In Washington Heights On Drug Abuse Prevention Rates Of Death Declining In NYC In All Major Drug Categories Except Prescription Drugs DA’s Office To Partner

… and expired prescription medications we are reducing the availability of diverted drugs while keeping our communities … has steadily increased between 2004 and 2008, however, the available data suggests that it has not surpassed cocaine …
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Charges Unsealed Against Specially Designated Global Terrorist Mohammad Bazzi and Talal Chahine

… Towanda R. Thorne-James Domestic New Jersey with offices in Atlantic City, Camden, Monmouth/Ocean, … of thousands of dollars from the United States to Lebanon without detection by law enforcement. Today’s arrest proves … out of the United States to Bazzi and Chahine in Lebanon without the requisite OFAC licenses, in violation of the …
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“Pill Mill” doctor pleads guilty to opioid distribution, admits signing prescriptions for dead and jailed patients

… outside the usual course of his medical practice and were without a legitimate medical purpose. “Because of pill mills … that are plainly outside their professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose,” said U.S. Attorney …