Former Huntsville physician Shelinder Aggarwal, who was previously described as a “pill mill doctor” by federal investigators, was one of the 1,499 people to have their sentence reduced last week in the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history carried out by President Joe Biden.
In 2017, Aggarwal was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for illegally prescribing controlled substances and conducting health care fraud involving $9.5 million in unneeded and unused urine tests, as AL.com previously reported.“This defendant directly contributed to the opioid epidemic that is plaguing our nation,” said 2017 FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
“He also cost taxpayers millions of dollars by fraudulently claiming government reimbursement for thousands of lab tests that he never used to treat patients. I applaud the work of my agents and our partners to shut down Aggarwal’s pill mill and hold him accountable for his actions.”In 2012, about 80 to 145 patients a day visited Aggarwal’s clinic, according to previous investigations.
Initial patient visits typically lasted five minutes or less, and follow-ups two minutes or less.
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.In 2012, Alabama pharmacies filled about 110,013 of Aggarwal’s prescriptions for controlled substances, according to the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) for Alabama,
That would equal about 423 prescriptions per day, if he worked five days a week, and resulted in about 12.3 million pills.
Aggarwal listed on the clemency list show he is at a halfway house in Montgomery and is set to be released on Dec. 22.
Pipe dream: Impeach Biden right now. Get him out. He is unfit for office, assuming he actually is in office.
Qs: Is it unreasonable to (1) be angry at Joe for granting clemency to a major criminal like Aggarwal, or (2) suspect that Aggarwal might have donated money to some corrupt Alabama Democratic politician who wanted to repay Aggarwal, but if not that, then why grant clemency to this psychopath goon with blood on his hands?
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