Families hoping for justice from prescription bribes trial

BOSTON (AP) — Drug company executives weren’t satisfied with sales for their powerful painkiller, so they devised a plan, prosecutors say: Offer cash to doctors in exchange for prescriptions. Soon, the highly addictive fentanyl spray was flourishing, and executives were raking in millions. Now, the company’s wealthy founder is heading to trial in a case... Read More

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January 24, 2019

Witness: El Chapo’s wife was in on plans for prison escape

NEW YORK (AP) — The wife of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman played a key role in his infamous 2015 escape from prison through a tunnel dug into the shower of his cell, a witness tesified Wednesday at the kingpin’s U.S. trial. Damaso Lopez Nunez, once a loyal lieutenant for Guzman, told the... Read More

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El Chapo

January 22, 2019

Ex-honors student gets 33 years in marijuana dealer’s death

FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) — A former community college honors student has been sentenced to 33 years in prison in the death of a marijuana dealer authorities say was shot by the defendant’s former boyfriend. The felony murder sentence imposed Friday on 21-year-old Raquel Garajau will require the ex-Brookdale Community College student to serve 30 years... Read More

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Raquel Garajau

January 18, 2019

Woman, testifying against El Chapo, details affair

NEW YORK (AP) — Lucero Guadalupe Sanchez Lopez was already trapped in an impossible extramarital relationship with Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman when she found herself in an even crazier bind — fleeing with Guzman and others from authorities through an underground tunnel, her outlaw love interest in the buff. Guzman “was naked,” Sanchez said... Read More

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El Chapo

January 17, 2019

Prosecutor: Drug maker pushed OxyContin despite danger signs

BOSTON (AP) — A member of the family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma told people at the prescription opioid painkiller’s launch party in the 1990s that it would be “followed by a blizzard of prescriptions that will bury the competition,” according to court documents filed Tuesday. The details were made public in a case... Read More

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Opioids, OxyContin, Purdue Pharma

January 16, 2019

Filing: OxyContin maker forecast ‘blizzard of prescriptions’

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Opioids, OxyContin

January 16, 2019

Hospital: Doc gave near-death patients excessive pain meds

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An intensive care doctor ordered “significantly excessive and potentially fatal” doses of pain medicine for at least 27 near-death patients in the past few years after families asked that lifesaving measures be stopped, an Ohio hospital system announced after being sued by a family alleging an improper dose of fentanyl actively... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Doctors, Drugs, News

Mount Carmel West Hospital

January 16, 2019

Drug trafficker tells of bribe to ex-president of Mexico

NEW YORK (AP) — A Colombian drug trafficker testified Tuesday that Mexican cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman boasted about paying a $100 million bribe to the former president of Mexico to call off a manhunt for the notorious kingpin. Alex Cifuentes spoke about the alleged bribe to former President Enrique Pena Nieto while being... Read More

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El Chapo

January 15, 2019

Actress McGowan pleads no contest to misdemeanor drug charge

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Actress Rose McGowan pleaded no contest Monday to a misdemeanor drug charge in Virginia after cocaine was found in a wallet she left behind at Dulles International Airport two years ago. Court records show she received a $2,500 fine and a suspended jail sentence at a Circuit Court hearing in... Read More

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Rose McGowan

January 15, 2019

China criticizes Trudeau comments on death penalty case

BEIJING (AP) — China expressed its “strong dissatisfaction” with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday over his criticism of a death sentence given to a Canadian accused of drug smuggling at a retrial that followed a chilling of relations over the arrest of a senior Chinese technology executive. Trudeau should “respect the rule of... Read More

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Robert Lloyd Schellenberg

January 14, 2019

China sentences Canadian man to death in drug smuggling case

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese court has sentenced a Canadian man to death in a drug smuggling case. A court in Dalian in northeastern Liaoning province announced Monday evening that it has given Robert Lloyd Schellenberg the death penalty. The sentence comes after China detained two Canadians in December in apparent retaliation for Canada’s arrest... Read More

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Robert Lloyd Schellenberg

January 10, 2019

Judge frees Palestinian man from 2-year immigration hold

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Palestinian man who was jailed in Iowa for two years while immigration authorities tried to secure permission to deport him has been released after a federal judge ruled he had been held for too long without a reasonable expectation of being repatriated soon. Advocates for immigrants’ rights say Hasan... Read More

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Hasan Salama Dibai Ghithan

January 7, 2019

Drugmakers seek sanctions over ’60 Minutes’ comments

CLEVELAND (AP) — Several drug manufacturers targeted in lawsuits over the opioid epidemic have asked a federal judge in Cleveland to sanction the man who is Ohio’s attorney general and governor-elect, along with two other lawyers, for statements they made in recent television interviews. Friday’s motion said statements by Republican Attorney General and Gov.-elect Mike... Read More

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January 4, 2019

El Chapo jury hears testimony from cartel cohort

NEW YORK (AP) — A former Mexican drug trafficker who once claimed he was a double agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration took center stage on Thursday against infamous kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman at a U.S. trial. Vicente Zambada became the latest in a parade of cooperators to testify as government witnesses in the... Read More

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El Chapo

Families hoping for justice from prescription bribes trial

Witness: El Chapo’s wife was in on plans for prison escape

Ex-honors student gets 33 years in marijuana dealer’s death

Woman, testifying against El Chapo, details affair

Prosecutor: Drug maker pushed OxyContin despite danger signs

Filing: OxyContin maker forecast ‘blizzard of prescriptions’

Hospital: Doc gave near-death patients excessive pain meds

Drug trafficker tells of bribe to ex-president of Mexico

Actress McGowan pleads no contest to misdemeanor drug charge

China criticizes Trudeau comments on death penalty case

China sentences Canadian man to death in drug smuggling case

Judge frees Palestinian man from 2-year immigration hold

Drugmakers seek sanctions over ’60 Minutes’ comments

El Chapo jury hears testimony from cartel cohort

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