Pain clinic owner pleads guilty The Ironton Tribune

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Jewell entered his guilty plea in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati before Judge S. Arthur Spiegel. According to a statement of facts filed with his plea Jewell admitted that beginning in January Jewell scheme to open a pain clinic in southern Ohio and pass out pain medications. His plan was to fill prescriptions for drugs other than Oxycontin knowing this particular drug was coming under the scrutiny of federal state and local law enforcement agencies. He leased a building and recruited doctors to staff the clinic. The patients were required to pay in cash for their Loracet and Xanax. Jewell split the money with the doctors and then laundered his monies to hide his dealings from authorities. The investigation into Jewell s pain clinics involved the U.S. District Attorney s Office Federal Bureau of Investigation Internal Revenue Service and the Lawrence County Sheriff s Office as well as numerous other federal government agencies. One of the doctors who worked at Jewell s pain clinics Gregory Ebner of Cincinnati pleaded guilty to his part in the pill mill operation last year and was sentenced in January to months in prison. 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