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Guilty As Sin –
July 19, 2019 – Rattini is accused of distributing powerful narcotic painkillers for other than medical reasons to more than 200 pharmacies across West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and Tennessee. Rattini was charged alongside Miami-Luken's former compliance officer, James Barclay, and two West Virginia pharmacists who ordered large amounts of the drugs from the company. Prosecutors accuse the Miami-Luken executives of shipping huge quantities of opioid pills to pharmacies in rural towns over several years despite warnings from the Drug Enforcement Administration. They are alleged to have deliberately ignored evidence that the opioids were not being dispensed with legitimate prescriptions.
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Ex-pharma chief charged with flooding Appalachian towns with opioids | US news | The Guardian
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