by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Thu, 2018 | Plea agreement |
Devendrakumar (Devendra) Ishwarbhai Patel, 58, a cardiologist in Elko, Nevada is the first in that state to face criminal charges since the formation of the Justice Department’s Opioid Fraud and Abuse Detection Unit. Nevada is one of 12 states under a U.S. Justice...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Tue, 2018 | Plea agreement |
Robert Rand, 54, of Reno Nevada was sentenced Nov, 2017 to 10 years for his June, 2017 guilty pleas to involuntary manslaughter and illegal distribution of a controlled substance. He maintained his innocence for over a year. But doctors don’t receive justice, forcing...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Wed, 2018 | Acquitted |
Four doctors in Carmel, IN, a suburb of Indianapolis, have sued the city and government officials responsible for the illegal attack on their clinic, Drug Opiate & Recovery Network (DORN), an addiction center prescribing Suboxone, in July, 2014. The lawsuit asks...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Dec, Fri, 2017 | Doctor charged |
Raymond Kraynak, DO, 60, from Mount Carmel, PA—a family practitioner/pain management specialist in a medically underserved area as well as a former school district board member—was arrested Dec. 21, 2017. Forced to surrender his license to prescribe controlled...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Dec, Thu, 2017 | Plea agreement |
In 2016, cardiologist Dominic W. Dileo, MD, 69, of Uniontown, PA along with his clinic director, Rosalind Sugarmann, 63, was indicted on 238 counts of conspiring to operate as a “pill mill”, including 213 counts unlawfully dispensing and distributing Suboxone,...