ORLANDO, Fla. — A Brevard County man who owned and operated a Longwood pill mill that prescribed millions of fraudulent narcotics has pleaded guilty to a money laundering conspiracy.
James Long, 44, who owned the Professional Pain Center at 860 E. State Road 434, employed a staff of 10 doctors who provided fraudulent narcotic prescriptions from 2010 to 2013, court documents say.
One doctor in particular, who was not named in Long’s plea agreement, wrote 19,685 prescriptions for controlled substances in one year.
That works out to more than 1.5 million pills, 1.2 million of which were 30mg oxycodone pills, investigators said.
While the business was in operation, Professional Pain Center staff were making cash bank deposits of about $10,000 a day, Long’s plea agreement said.
In all, the clinic made more than $5.5 million in cash deposits, court documents said.
In 69 randomly selected medical files, investigators found that two unnamed doctors
prescribed more than 330,000 pills, about 4,700 to each patient.
As part of his plea agreement, Long will forfeit eight properties in Palm Bay, Melbourne, Malabar and Grant Valkaria.
Long will also have to give up two Chevrolet Silverados, $10,140 in cash, more than $20,000 from various bank accounts and life insurance policies valued at more than $100,000.
He faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison on the charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
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