Monday, October 10, 2016

Philadelphia Pill Mill Doctor Gets 30 Years


Veteran crime reporter and author George Anastasia reports at bigtrial.net that the Philadelphia "pill mill" doctor was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

A federal judge sentenced pill mill doctor William J. O'Brien 3d to 30 years in prison today for running a multi-million dollar drug trafficking operation with the Pagans outlaw motorcycle gang and for contributing to the death of a patient by prescribing what authorities said was a "lethal' combination of pain medications.

O'Brien, jailed since his arrest in January 2015, showed little remorse during the two-hour hearing before Judge Nitza Quinones. On the contrary, the 51-year-old doctor, who had represented himself during a six-week trial that ended in June, insisted he was innocent and continued to rant against prosecutors and investigators who he said lied and fabricated evidence to build the case against him.

O'Brien was found guilty of 123 of the 127 counts he faced, including multiple counts of drug trafficking. He was also found guilty of money-laundering and lying in a bankruptcy proceeding.


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http://www.bigtrial.net/2016/10/pill-mill-doc-gets-30-years.html#more

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