Florida Man Pleads Guilty To Plot To Distribute Oxycodone
BALTIMORE (AP) -- A Florida man has pleaded guilty to plotting to distribute oxycodone and other drugs at a pain management clinic in Maryland.
Eighty-one-year-old Gerald Wiseberg of Boca Raton entered the plea Thursday in federal court in Baltimore.
According to his plea agreement, Wiseberg owned and operated a pain management clinic in Deerfield Beach, Florida. Prosecutors say Wiseberg accepted cash for providing prescriptions for large amounts of controlled substances to customers who had no legitimate medical need for the drugs.
Authorities say Wiseberg and two co-conspirators set up a similar clinic, first in Owings Mills, Maryland, and later in Timonium, Maryland. Prosecutors say this clinic also sold prescriptions for cash to people who did not need painkillers.
Wiseberg faces a maximum of 20 years in prison at sentencing on March 7.
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