Ndufola Kigham is the fourth defendant to plead guilty in the Dallas-area “pill mill” scandal. The other defendants consist of a medical clinic owner, another pharmacist and an osteopathic physician. The guilty plea implicates Ms. Kigham in the acts of filling prescriptions for 30mg oxycodone written for multiple individuals and dispensing the drugs to a single individual whose name did not match the name on the prescription.
“As part of the conspiracy, individuals, often homeless or of limited means, were recruited and paid to pose as patients at medical clinics … to obtain prescriptions [and] to fill those prescriptions at designated pharmacies,” the Drug Enforcement Administration said in a release.
Under her guilty plea, Ms. Kigham agreed to pay a $9,500 fine prior to sentencing and faces a maximum statutory sentence of three years in federal prison. Sentencing is slated for May 26, 2017.
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