{"id":453558,"date":"2016-02-17T16:38:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T22:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=453558"},"modified":"2016-02-18T18:09:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T00:09:26","slug":"doctor-pleads-guilty-to-illegally-prescribing-pain-medication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=453558","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Pleads Guilty to Illegally Prescribing Pain Medication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/02\/FederalCourthouse.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-453559\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/02\/FederalCourthouse-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"FederalCourthouse\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-453559\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A pain management physician who spent part of his time working in East Texas has pleaded guilty to illegally dispensing controlled substances.  Sameer Andoni Fino, 49, of Murphy, Texas, entered his plea in Tyler federal court and faces up to ten years in federal prison.  No sentencing date has been set.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to information presented in court, Fino, as the owner of the Fino Pain Clinic, provided pain management services to patients in the Dallas\/Fort Worth metropolitan area and East Texas.  On September 24, 2014, in Longview, Fino evaluated an undercover law enforcement agent who was posing as a new patient.  During that visit, Fino did not perform any physical examination of the agent.  After meeting with the agent for approximately six minutes, Fino wrote the undercover agent a prescription for 60 units of Norco 10 mg, which is an opioid pain medication containing hydrocodone.  Fino knowingly and intentionally dispensed this controlled substance outside the usual course of professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose.<\/p>\n<p>In connection with his guilty plea, Fino has agreed to voluntarily surrender his DEA Certificate of Registration, thereby surrendering his privileges to prescribe controlled substances in the future. In a related civil action, Fino has agreed to forfeit $3,936,704.41.  The funds were originally seized during the execution of federal seizure warrants.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A pain management physician who spent part of his time working in East Texas has pleaded guilty to illegally dispensing controlled substances. Sameer Andoni Fino, 49, of Murphy, Texas, entered his plea in Tyler federal court and faces up to ten years in federal prison. No sentencing date has been set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":453559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 02:24:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=453558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453561,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453558\/revisions\/453561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/453559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=453558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=453558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=453558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}