Robert Courtney Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth, Family

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Robert Courtney (Robert Ray Courtney) was born on 15 September, 1952 in Hays, Kansas, United States, is a Former pharmacist. Discover Robert Courtney's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?

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Courtney was born in Hays, Kansas. His father was a traveling minister based in Scott City, and described Courtney as an "ideal son." He played the trombone at Wichita South High School. Courtney graduated from the School of Pharmacy at University of Missouri–Kansas City in 1975.

In 2008, an episode of American Greed, entitled "Deadly ℞ For Greed", recounted Courtney's crimes, trial and conviction.

Facing the prospect of life in prison if convicted at trial, on February 20, 2002, Courtney pleaded guilty to 20 federal counts of tampering and adulterating the chemotherapy drugs Taxol and Gemzar. He also acknowledged that he and his corporation, Courtney Pharmacy Inc., had weakened drugs, conspired to traffic in stolen drugs and caused the filing of false Medicare claims. According to law enforcement estimates, as well as his own confession, from 1992 to 2001 Courtney diluted 98,000 prescriptions from 400 doctors, which were given to 4,200 patients. Courtney admitted to diluting 72 different kinds of drugs. Besides chemotherapy treatments, he admitted diluting medications for diabetes and AIDS patients, as well as fertility treatments. On December 5, 2002, Courtney was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.

In early 2001, Ashley once again voiced his concerns to a nurse who worked for Dr. Verda Hunter (now Hicks), an oncologist in Courtney's building, who was also one of Courtney's customers. Hunter noticed that many of her patients were only suffering mild side effects, and their condition didn't seem to be improving. Hunter had medication that had been supplied by Courtney tested. That test showed that the sample contained less than one-third of the drug prescribed, and upon receiving the test results back, Hunter immediately notified the FBI.

Investigators persuaded Hunter to help them in a sting operation. Hunter gave Courtney several prescriptions for fictitious patients. After Courtney mixed the drugs and sent them to Hunter's office, federal agents had them tested. The samples contained less than half of the prescribed dosage, and in some cases contained less than one percent of the active drug. On August 13, 2001, federal agents raided Research Medical Tower Pharmacy. A day later, Courtney surrendered to authorities and was charged with one count of adulterating and misbranding medication. Investigators reported that before turning himself in, Courtney gave $80,000 in cash, and more than 100 doses of Prozac to his wife.

Faced with the evidence, Courtney gave investigators a list of three medications that he diluted, and a list of 34 affected patients. He claimed to have only started diluting drugs a few months ago, a claim no one believed. He openly admitted he did it to pay off a $1 million donation to his church's building fund. On August 23, 2001, Courtney was indicted on 20 counts of tampering with consumer products and adulterating and misbranding drugs. Many patients and survivors wanted him charged with murder, but federal prosecutors believed a murder charge would be hard to prove since many patients were suffering from late-stage cancer.

Currently it appears he is still married to the woman he was married to who was given a plea bargain for delivering cash for safekeeping - allegedly because she feared for her financial safety as she was a stay at home wife with twins who was married to a custodial parent of two daughters from a previous marriage. She lived in a $700,000 house in 2001. She was on probation and served one day for her crime. She appears to have two residences - one in KC and the other in Dallas which is near the prison he is in that is not high security. They appear to have had another child as the total was 4 upon conviction and now it is listed as 5. This indicates that he has fathered a child since his conviction. She was reported to be innocent of all wrongdoing at the plea bargain and has since been able to carry on a mutually beneficial relationship with an incarcerated criminal for 20 years. ( All of this is public information from court transcripts ) with the exception of research indicating the additional birth attributed to him since his conviction.

In 1998, Darryl Ashley, an Eli Lilly sales representative noticed Courtney was selling three times the amount of the cancer drug Gemzar than he'd bought. Lilly initiated an internal investigation but found no evidence of illegality and closed the investigation without further action.

In 1992, he and his first wife divorced; Courtney retained custody of their two daughters. His second marriage lasted four or five days and was later annulled. In 1994 his third wife, Laura Courtney, gave birth to twins. In August 2001, the same month he was arrested, Courtney held total assets worth $18.7 million.

In 1990, Courtney began purchasing pharmaceuticals on the gray market and using them to fill prescriptions at his pharmacy. In time he began diluting prescriptions to increase profits. Both practices were illegal.

In 1986, Courtney became the owner of Research Medical Tower Pharmacy in Kansas City, where he had worked for some time. He primarily mixed intravenous drugs. Before his arrest, Courtney served as a deacon at Northland Cathedral, an Assemblies of God megachurch in Kansas City.

Robert Ray Courtney (born September 15, 1952) is an American former pharmacist from Kansas City, Missouri. In 2002, after initially being caught diluting several doses of chemotherapy drugs, he pleaded guilty to intentionally diluting 98,000 prescriptions involving multiple types of drugs, which were given to 4,200 patients, and was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. He is currently serving his sentence at Big Spring Federal Correctional Institution in Big Spring, Texas.

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