What Happened
On June 4, 2021, Ivan Lamont Robinson, 50, of Washington, D.C., a licensed nurse practitioner, was sentenced to 135 months in federal prison and ordered to forfeit $108,000. A jury had previously found him guilty of 42 charges that he distributed oxycodone outside the legitimate scope of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose, plus two counts of money laundering. Trial evidence showed he ran a pain management clinic and sold prescriptions for 60 tablets of 30 milligram oxycodone for $370 in blank money orders, after pharmacists complained of a possible pill mill. A medical expert testified there was no medical basis for the prescriptions.
“Robinson sold prescriptions to customers in exchange for $370 in blank money orders.”
Related Guidance
- 15 Red Flags of Drug Diversion — Behavioral and transactional indicators of diversion.
- Investigation Playbook — How to investigate suspected diversion inside an organization.