Sarasota doctor gets 3.5 years in prison for taking bribes to prescribe opioids

A federal judge sentenced the 59-year-old doctor for taking sham “speaking fees” in exchange for prescribing drug containing fentanyl.

By Louis Llovio
| 1:30 p.m. December 7, 2022
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Manatee-Sarasota

A 59-year-old Sarasota doctor will serve more than three years in federal prison for accepting bribes to prescribe a spray containing the highly addictive and sometime deadly opioid fentanyl.

U.S. District Judge William H. Jung sentenced Dr. Steven Chun to 42 months and ordered him to forfeit $278,900. Chun was also fined $100,000 and will have to serve three years of probation when he is released according to a sentencing document.