7thspace.com on September 16, 2011 reported that Lewis Meyer Jacobs, 79, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute, and actual distribution of frequently abused controlled substances, including Percocet and OxyContin, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Jacobs admitted that he operated his medical practice as a pill mill, between at least 2005 and May 2010, during which he sold sham prescriptions to drug dealers and addicts, paid a drug-dealing office employee in prescriptions, and also issued prescriptions to a drug-dealing paramour.

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