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  1. March 06, 2024

    Ohio Neurologist Can't Shorten His Drug Kickback Sentence

    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.

  2. February 06, 2023

    Ohio Neurologist Given 2½ Years For Drug Kickback Scheme

    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.

  3. October 31, 2022

    2 Plead Guilty In Avanir Drug Kickback Scheme

    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.