QuiltyConscience
03-13-2009, 04:18 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090313/ap_on_en_tv/anna_nicole_smith_drug_charges
DA: Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend was 'enabler'
LOS ANGELES – Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer-turned-boyfriend was the principal enabler in a conspiracy with two doctors to provide the "known addict" thousands of prescription pills in the months before she died of an overdose, California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Friday.
Howard K. Stern and Drs. Khristine Eroshevich and Sandeep Kapoor were charged by Los Angeles County prosecutors after a two-year probe by the attorney general, state medical and insurance officials and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
"What we have in this case is a conspiracy among three individuals," Brown told a news conference. "Howard K Stern is the principal enabler, and Dr. Erosevich and Dr. Kapoor are prescribing drugs excessively to a known addict and using false and fictitious names, all in violation of the law and all in furtherance of a conspiracy."
In addition to conspiracy, the charges filed Thursday include unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance and prescribing, administering or dispensing a controlled substance to an addict. Stern faces six felony counts and the doctors face seven each. Each count carries a potential sentence of three years, Brown said.
Despicable. I wonder how much they had to do with her son's death. I'm betting these docs were involved in other patients getting drugs illegally as well.
Why did it take 2 years to figure this out? Weren't people talking about this years ago, while she still had her show? It's a shame nobody checked into before she and her son died.
I also wonder how they all managed to do it for so long without getting caught. Why would a sane individual do that? Why weren't they trying to get her clean?
DA: Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend was 'enabler'
LOS ANGELES – Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer-turned-boyfriend was the principal enabler in a conspiracy with two doctors to provide the "known addict" thousands of prescription pills in the months before she died of an overdose, California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Friday.
Howard K. Stern and Drs. Khristine Eroshevich and Sandeep Kapoor were charged by Los Angeles County prosecutors after a two-year probe by the attorney general, state medical and insurance officials and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
"What we have in this case is a conspiracy among three individuals," Brown told a news conference. "Howard K Stern is the principal enabler, and Dr. Erosevich and Dr. Kapoor are prescribing drugs excessively to a known addict and using false and fictitious names, all in violation of the law and all in furtherance of a conspiracy."
In addition to conspiracy, the charges filed Thursday include unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance and prescribing, administering or dispensing a controlled substance to an addict. Stern faces six felony counts and the doctors face seven each. Each count carries a potential sentence of three years, Brown said.
Despicable. I wonder how much they had to do with her son's death. I'm betting these docs were involved in other patients getting drugs illegally as well.
Why did it take 2 years to figure this out? Weren't people talking about this years ago, while she still had her show? It's a shame nobody checked into before she and her son died.
I also wonder how they all managed to do it for so long without getting caught. Why would a sane individual do that? Why weren't they trying to get her clean?