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GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A Georgia doctor accused of running a roving pain management clinic in South Mississippi has been fined $15,000 and sentenced to prison for five years.
The Sun Herald reports (http://bit.ly/1P7kK2F) Dr. Sanjay Sinha, of Woodstock, Georgia, also will have five years of probation. He can no longer prescribe medicine.
U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden gave Sinha the maximum prison term Wednesday for distributing and dispensing a controlled substance outside the scope of professional practice.
Sinha and three co-defendants from South Mississippi were arrested in March 2014 through a state and federal investigation named Operation Double Down Doc. Sinha was accused of operating a pill ring to recoup his gambling losses and using casino workers to build his clientele.
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