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LOS ANGELES, July 30 (UPI) -- A judge has sentenced a former California doctor to 25 years in prison and fined him $1 million for over-prescribing narcotic drugs.
Authorities said former San Fernando Dr. Masoud Bamdad regularly prescribed the painkiller oxycodone to drug addicts and undercover drug agents, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.
For three years in a row, Bamdad was among the state's largest prescribers of oxycodone, and the volume of his prescriptions was larger than some hospitals and pain clinics, U.S. District Court Judge George Wu told the court.
A jury convicted Bamdad of 13 counts of illegal drug distribution in May.
Prosecutors said the doctor's clinic netted about $30,000 a week, or about $1.5 million per year.
Bamdad prescribed narcotics to known drug addicts and teenagers, investigators said.
Prosecutors had sought a sentence of 40 years and a fine of $2 million. Bamdad had asked for home confinement.
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