Bracken County Doctor Gets Six Years For Selling Prescriptions

A Bracken County doctor was sentenced Monday to almost six years in prison for selling prescription drugs in return for thousands of dollars and sexual favors.

Police say Milton Brindley, 66, of Augusta was the source of thousands of illegally obtained prescription pills from 2003 to 2007. They say Bindley, who practiced medicine for more than 30 years, wrote prescriptions for controlled substances for non medical purposes. Specifically, they say he distributed pills containing oxycodone as well as more than 80,000 pills for other controlled substances including hydrocodone, benzphetamine, codeine, phentermine, clonazepam, diazepam, carisoprodol, and lorazepam.

Police say those prescriptions were often given to individuals identified as transporters, who brought patients to Brindley’s office, arranged the payments for the illegal prescriptions and collected the prescriptions for Brindley’s patients. On numerous occasions, Police say Brindley gave
the prescription to the transporter even when the patient was not at the office. The transporters were then involved in illegally selling the controlled substances.

Police say in return for the prescriptions, the transporters provided Brindley with cash, additional patients, jewelry, pornographic material, and sexual favors (whether it was the transporter having sex with Brindley, or providing people to have sex with Brindley).

Police say in total, Brindley received $591,575 in gross proceeds for the prescriptions.

In July, Brindley pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to illegally distributing prescription drugs.

Under federal law, Brindley must serve 85 percent of his prison sentence, and, upon release, will be under the supervision of the United States Probation Office for three years.

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