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Article: Pharmacy Chief Turns Medicine Thief.(former director of pharmacy at New York City's renowned Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center Harry Morelli sentenced for selling stolen prescription drugs)(Brief Article)
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- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- November 1, 1999
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The former director of pharmacy at New York City's renowned Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center is serving out a year-and-a-day prison sentence for selling cancer medicines and other prescription drugs he had stolen from the hospital's pharmacy.
Harry Morelli, 54, of Putnam Valley, N.Y., illegally sold prescription drugs to drug wholesalers from about 1985 to 1993, according to evidence gathered by the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Criminal Investigations. Morelli admitted to at least 45 transactions, for which he got $3,000 to $4,000 each.
"It was not a crime of need but a crime of greed," says Stewart Magee, special agent in charge of ...