| Insys Opiods Doctor Burducea
Sentenced At Top of Guidelines After Posting
Fake Complaints
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 3 – Doctor Alexandru
Burducea pled guilty to
violating the Anti-Kickback
Statute by pitching Insys'
drug Subsys, 50 times more
potent than morphine, after
getting payments through the
Insys "speakers'
program."
Yet on
January 27 Burducea requested
a non-custodial sentence from
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Kimba M. Wood, who is
overseeing his wider
case.
There was
only one problem: Burducea has
also, to try to get revenge
against other doctors, created
online accounts in the names
of existing patients and
posted false complaints
against the doctors, including
of sexual harassment.
Judge Wood
quoted from these false
reviews during the sentencing,
noting that Burducea has used
Spanish idioms and shown not
only malice but also
sophistication.
Burducea's
lawyer tried to say the false
online posts were a product of
"mania" and that he himself had
consented to remove them from
the Internet.
Judge Wood
sentenced him to the very top
of the guideline in his plea
agreement: 57 months. The case
is US v. Burducea, 18-cr-217
(Wood).
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