PHILADELPHIA — The longtime owner of a Northeast Philadelphia pharmacy that once prescribed more OxyContin than any drug store in the country has been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay more than $4 million to settle claims of defrauding the government.
Mitchell Spivack, 63, of Collegeville, was sentenced to three years and six months in prison, two years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $451,328 restitution and to forfeit $116,000.
United States District Court Judge Harvey Bartle III on Tuesday also ordered that Spivack and the business he owned for 30 years, Verree Pharmacy in Fox Chase, must pay the $4.1 million under the Controlled Substances Act, False Claims Act. They are banned from ever dispensing controlled substances.
