A 72-year-old South Miami doctor has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for prescribing pain and anxiety drugs to pain clinic customers without examination, sometimes without getting out of his car or being in the United States, prosecutors said.
Dr. Osmin Morales owned the Miami Pain Relief Institute. He also saw patients — or, at least, prescribed pills — one day a week at Yanet Perez’s Reliable Alliance Health Care from May 2015 through December 2020.
Morales’ side work at Reliable led to guilty verdicts on charges of conspiracy to unlawfully dispense and distribute oxycodone and morphine; unlawfully distributing and dispensing oxycodone and alprazolam (brand name Xanax); unlawfully distributing and dispensing oxycodone; unlawfully distributing and dispensing oxycodone and morphone; and three counts of unlawfully distributing oxycodone.
Morales, who lives in Weston, was acquitted on five similar counts. His co-defendants each pleaded guilty to a single charge.
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