Behind Bars and Looking at a Real Long Stretch

I missed class on September 25th because I was in Pensacola testifying against the doctor described below. My FBI friend told me it was a pathetic scene when he was remanded into custody right there in the courtroom. The US Marshals put on the cuffs, frisked him, made him remove his belt and watch and other such things, empty his pockets, but here is the best part: they made him surrender his toupee!!
One of the counts involved a death and they tell me that this carries a minimum mandatory sentence of 20 years. For him, that's a life sentence.


PENSACOLA — Destin physician Dr. David W. Webb was convicted Wednesday of 130 of the 131 charges federal agents brought against him in January. Amy Hunt, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Pensacola, confirmed that Webb’s conviction on one charge of a drug distribution makes him liable for four patient deaths. “It’s a relief. It’s well deserved. I’m glad to see justice was served,” said Deb Morrison, who said she went to authorities after the 2005 death of 21-year-old Anthony Moore, who she described as “my son’s best friend.” Webb, 67, and his wife, Bonnie Webb, were charged with 36 counts of health care fraud and 79 counts of illegally dispensing drugs. They also were charged with identity theft, conspiracy and the drug distribution charge involving the four deaths. Webb also was charged with making fraudulent health care benefit claims for patients another physician was seeing. Bonnie Webb, 57, who worked as her husband’s office manager, previously had pleaded guilty to the charges she faced. She is scheduled for sentencing Oct. 13. Hunt could not provide a sentencing date for David Webb. The Webbs operated the Doctors on Call clinic. Their arrests followed the seizure of 14,000 patient records. Prosecutors said at the time of the arrest that Webb had been prescribing drugs in high dosages and helping “doctor-shopping” patients abuse them. Webb was a longtime Destin physician who made house calls. Reports following his arrest said he had been under federal scrutiny for years. Federal agents had conducted an extensive review of Webb’s files in 2006, going through seven years’ worth of business and 100,000 office visits. As far back as 2005, Webb’s medical license was suspended for prescribing Viagra, Xenical and other drugs based solely on Internet order forms, according to a report. Prosecutors say he continued prescribing drugs during his suspension by using another doctor’s Drug Enforcement Agency registration number to conceal it.