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?Pill Mill Operator Convicted? Is The Headline, But Was It a Victory For the State?

By Robert David, Esq.

Sometimes it takes some knowledge of how prosecutions generally work to see through press releases and newspaper articles touting big victories by the government. The State of Florida issued a press release yesterday regarding the conviction of a so called ?pill mill? operator on charges including adulteration and misbranding of drugs related to the internet sales, without a prescription, of $10 million dollars worth of drugs including controlled substances. The scheme sounds pretty nefarious. Abel Rodriguez was convicted for his role in setting up pharmacies that didn?t operate except to purchase drugs from wholesalers and passing those drugs on to bought the drugs from wholesalers and then sent the drugs to co-conspirators who then sold the drugs out of warehouses via the internet without a doctor?s prescription...continue to full post

Full post as published by Health Care Fraud Blog on January 10, 2010 (boomark / email).