With his wife and 90- year-old mother looking on, a once-respected Palm Beach County psychiatrist was handcuffed and led from a federal courtroom on Friday to begin serving an eight-year prison sentence for exploiting people struggling with addiction. Mark Agresti's quick transformation from free man to federal prisoner was unusual.
A 49-year-old Florida man who used people struggling with addiction to bilk insurers out of $31.3 million will spend six years behind bars, a federal judge decided Wednesday.
The medical director of Good Decisions Sober Living in Palm Beach ordered patients to undergo excessive and medically unnecessary urine tests 3-4 times per week to the tune of $6,000 to $9,000 per test.