OC Weekly Investigation Leads to Prison Time for AIDS Doctor
By AAN Staff
february 24, 2010 12:50 pm
Nine and a half years after
OC Weekly's R. Scott Moxley
broke the story about well-known AIDS doctor George Steven Kooshian having injected patients with saline and vitamins instead of the expensive drugs they were billed for, the 59-year-old was sentenced Monday to 15 months in federal prison. Kooshian was also ordered to pay $660,955 in restitution to 18 insurance companies for 21 patients who were subdosed.