March 06, 2024
An Ohio federal judge ruled an imprisoned neurologist cannot shorten his 30-month sentence for conspiring to collect illegal kickbacks for prescribing Nuedexta, a drug used to treat patients who have uncontrollable fits of laughter or crying, stating that his victims' vulnerability exempts him from his requested reduction.
February 06, 2023
A Cleveland-area neurologist has been sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison and fined $50,000 after he pled, just as his trial was to begin, to participating in a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe Avanir Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s neurological medication Nuedexta.
October 31, 2022
A neurologist and pharmaceutical company sales representative pled guilty Monday on the eve of their federal trial in Ohio, admitting to a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe Avanir Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s neurological medication Nuedexta.