Judge Rips Pharmacist Fraudster’s Bid to End Supervised Release

A Detroit pharmacist who pleaded guilty to filling illegitimate prescriptions for controlled substances will remain under supervised release, after a federal court in Michigan said he clearly didn’t understand the gravity of his crimes.

As a pharmacist, he “placed hundreds of thousands of dosage units of addictive prescription drugs into the illegal street market, while enriching himself by defrauding over $1.6 million from Medicare insurance programs,” the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan said.

“Congress determined that such criminality warrants a minimum supervised release term of three years.”

Nadeem Iqbal, who at the time of the offense ...