Clinton pharmacist will head to prison in compound pharmacy scheme [View all]

Former pharmacist Silas Richmond II, 33, of Clinton, one of 12 people charged in a multistate, $400 million compound pharmacy scheme, was sentenced Tuesday at William M. Colmer Federal Courthouse in Hattiesburg to 16 months in prison and three years of post-release supervision.

U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett did not fine Richmond, but said he must pay restitution of $354,957.43 and interest would be waived.

Richmond pleaded guilty July 18 to conspiracy to commit health care fraud of more than $545,000.

He is listed as a 2010 graduate of the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy.

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