Three pain clinic staffers admitted a pill scheme. Head Dr. beats 9 out of 10 charges.

Jury Pampering –

July 2, 2018 – Oakland Park doctor Andres Mencia, accused of prescribing 1,200 opioid doses a day while running a pill mill, beat nine of 10 drugs and fraud charges in federal court on Friday. But Mencia likely will still see federal prison time and face further discipline from the Florida Department of Health, which already wants to discipline him for another matter. Possession might be nine-tenths of the law with hard goods, but federal prosecutors’ possession of guilty pleas by Adult & Geriatric Institute of Florida staffers was good for a guilty verdict on only one tenth of the charges against Mencia: conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance.

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