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
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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.

 

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