USA: Doctor pleads not guilty to illegally prescribing drugs at café

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ktla.com on October 26, 2011 reported that an Orange County doctor pleaded not guilty Wednesday to allegations he made up to $4,000 a night illegally selling prescriptions for dangerous painkillers to people he barely knew at Starbucks cafes. Alvin Ming-Czech Yee, 43, of Mission Viejo, was arrested Tuesday at his Irvine office DEA agents, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles. A 56-count grand jury indictment charges Yee with prescribing drugs, such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, "outside the usual course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose," the release said. Yee also allegedly ran a makeshift clinic out of a Starbucks.

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USA: Doctor pleads not guilty to illegally prescribing drugs at café

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