orlandosentinel.com on January 27, 2012 reported that a Central Florida physician was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday for supplying drug dealers with prescriptions for painkillers and other powerful narcotics. Jose Carlos Menendez, who lived in Casselberry and worked at the Physicians Care Partners in Osceola County, pleaded for mercy and leniency at his emotional sentencing hearing. But ultimately, Osceola Circuit Court Judge Jon B. Morgan said he couldn't hand-down a lesser prison sentence "in good conscience." After hearing tearful and remorseful testimony from the physician, his wife and father, Morgan said Menendez was motivated by greed and used his medical license as if it were a "money-making machine."

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