Posted on 12/29/2024 5:23:05 PM PST by xxqqzz
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — A former Huntsville pill mill doctor was one of nearly 1,500 people who had their sentence commuted by President Joe Biden last week.
In October 2016, Shelinder Aggarwal pleaded guilty to illegally prescribing controlled substances and conducting health care fraud involving $9.5 million in unnecessary and unused urine tests. Following his guilty plea, Aggarwal was sentenced to 15 years in prison in February 2017. He was ordered to report to prison in April 2017.
Biden granted Aggarwal clemency on Thursday, Dec. 12, as part of what the Associated Press reported was “the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history.” Clemency describes the president’s power to relieve people of guilt and punishment, or pardon, and reduce or punishment without eliminating the wrongdoing, or commutation.
Aggarwal was a pain management doctor who operated Chronic Pain Care Services in Huntsville. His medical practice was a pill mill, according to the charges and plea agreement. At the height of his practice, the U.S. Department of Justice said he was the nation’s highest Medicare prescriber of opioid painkillers.
Documents state that in 2012, about 80 to 145 patients a day visited Aggarwal’s clinic, with him seeing the majority of patients and writing all prescriptions. Initial patient visits typically lasted five minutes or less, and follow-ups two minutes or less.
The documents also state that Aggarwal did not obtain prior medical records for his patients, did not treat patients with anything other than controlled substances, often asked patients what medications they wanted and filled their requests, prescribed controlled substances to patients who he knew were using illegal drugs, and did not take appropriate measures to ensure that patients did not divert or abuse controlled substances, which led to the illegal prescribing charge he faced and later pleaded guilty to.
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He probably made a fortune. 1500 * $200,000 = $300 million.
Alabama pharmacies filled over 110K of his prescriptions for pain pills.
Yes, you know some money had to have flowed into Biden, Inc. for this clemency deal.
How much money did he contribute to the DNC? Biden family?
110K prescriptions in one year. So if he worked normal hours, about 55 prescriptions per hour. Apparently, several of his patients died of overdoses. In addition to losing his license, he got 15 years without parole, which wound up being 7 years.
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