BHM443 Module 1 SLP

UNITED SATES OF AMERICA, APPELLEE, vs. ROBERT RAY COURTNEY, APPELLANT Name: Grade Course: Tutor`s Name: (14, July, 2011) United sates of America, appellee, vs. Robert Ray Courtney, appellant The defendant was born in Hays Kansas city in 1952 and he is a former pharmacist who was the owner as well as the operator of Research medical tower in Kansas City in Missouri until 2002 when he was convicted of pharmaceutical fraud resulting to his sentence to federal prison. Robert Courtney graduated from the school of pharmacy at university if Missouri in 1975 and became the largest donor of the school after his graduation. He has been married third times and divorce twice. He has also served as a deacon in the Assembly of God church in Northern cathedral (Kansas City Star, 2001). In 1990, Courtney started to practice illegal purchasing of pharmaceuticals on the gray market and used them to fill prescriptions at his company resulting to increasing illegal activities including dilution of prescriptions targeted at increasing profits. It was until 1998 that one of the company`s sale representatives, Eli Lilly realized a discrepancy regarding the amount of cancer drug that was bought and sold by the company prompting her to conduct an internal investigation which yielded no evidence leading to closure of the case (Tribune News Service, 2001). It`s only in 20011 that Eli Lilly involved a Courtney`s customer and also a nurse working as an oncologist in the Courtney`s building in the issue leading to testing of the medications supplied by Courtney. The results astonishingly revealed that the prescriptions were diluted and the nurse reported it to the authorities for action. He was then arrested in 2001 prosecuted and sentenced to a 30 year imprisonment in federal prison. When the drugs were lab tested the result showed that the Gemzar and Taxol sample doses contained 17-50 percent of the chemotherapy drug that were expected to ...