CONNECTICUT — A Connecticut doctor has pleaded guilty to prescribing a Florida couple thousands of oxycodone pills that were then sold on the street, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Dr. Paul Bellofiore, 56, regularly treated the pair when they lived in Connecticut, and continued to treat them after they moved to Waterbury, Florida, in 2011, court documents said.
The husband and wife, who were not identified in court documents, traveled back to Connecticut twice a year to get more prescriptions from Bellofiore.
The doctor post-dated the prescriptions to make them look like they had recently been written, allowing the couple to get thousands of oxycodone pills over six months, investigators said.
“The couple subsequently diverted a significant amount of their medications for profit by arranging through a middleman for street-level resale of the pills in and around Waterbury,” a news release said.
Bellofiore pleaded guilty to one count of issuing an unlawful prescription for oxycodone.
He faces a maximum sentence of one year in prison and a $100,000 fine.