LOS ANGELES—A former physician from Orange County was sentenced June 9 to 151 months behind bars for conspiring to illegally prescribe more than 120,000 opioid pills over a six-year span without a legitimate medical purpose in exchange for cash and insurance payments.
Dzung Anh Pham, 61, of Tustin, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Josephine L. Staton, who also fined him $35,000 and ordered him immediately remanded into custody, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Pham, who owned Irvine Village Urgent Care, pleaded guilty last year to a federal charge of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.
Pham and co-defendant Jennifer Nguyen, a then-pharmacist, conspired to distribute narcotics such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, and amphetamine salts, according to papers filed in Los Angeles federal court….