BANGOR, Maine — The former head pharmacist for the Penobscot Indian Nation’s defunct mail-order pharmacy faces sentencing after pleading guilty to soliciting and taking kickbacks from Internet drug companies.
Reginald Gracie Jr. pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Portland on Friday to receiving kickbacks and filing false tax returns.
The 40-year-old Gracie, who lives in Bowdoin, was charged with receiving more than $120,000 from six online companies in 2006 in return for making sure the tribe’s mail-order pharmacy, known as PIN Rx, filled the prescriptions of the companies’ customers.
Gracie faces up to 10 years in prison on the kickback charge and three years on the tax charges. A sentencing date has not been scheduled.
Gracie’s pharmacist license was revoked by the state in 2007.
Hmmmm… Speaker of the House canidate?
Kick backs from drug companies? I suppose thats a sigh of progress. It wasn’t so long ago under the previous administration the While House and both branches of Congress were wholly owned subsidiaries of the pharmaceutical industry. Everybody right at the top was bought and paid for. Now they have to buy these little crumb bums.
That whole deal was an accident waiting to happen. Does anyone really beleive that he was the only person on the take?
Yeah, if you know him…. it’s very likely he was the only person on the take. The other pharmacist, she quit to get the hell away from him. Good move on her part.
When the bar tender is “skimming” the bar profits by not ringing up all the drinks, the restaraunt owner is getting some of that action as well.
You’d think… but the Board of Pharmacy, MRS and the IRS did all the investigative work… you can read it yourself where the Maine State Board of Pharmacy revoked his pharmacy license, and how it was upheld on appeal 8-0.
http://pfr.informe.org/almsonline/almsquery/ShowDetail.aspx?TOKEN=9DB038499CB0CD559A2941265F31E4A3
Very sad that this guy wasted a very expensive and difficult education-I know I paid for a Pharm D.
Indeed, good point! Of course, even a PharmD can’t fix someone’s ethics and personality. For every ten good pharmacists like yours, there’s always a bad apple somewhere. If he’d taken the financial commissions from those internet pharmacies, and had it sent to PINRx rather than his own personal checking account…. he could have had PINRx pay him most of it as a bonus. Greed must have gotten the better….. if you’ve gone through the PDF files of what the Board of Pharmacy found… it’s all pretty telling.
As they said in the movie, Animal House, “7 years of college down the drain.”
He’s in trouble for emulating Omama’s “green energy” business model?
How can that be? It’s not like he was receiving taxpayer funding for his scam!