Mitchell Spivack News Today

Mike Byers of Mint Error News talks about the provenance and value of a unique 1976 "No S" Bicentennial Proof Eisenhower Dollar.

Who’s up and who’s down this week?

A neighborhood pharmacy owner was the largest purchaser of oxycodone among retail pharmacies in the entire state of Pennsylvania by 2016 and pled guilty to charges of conspiracy and fraud.

Mitchell Spivack, 63, of Collegeville, was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for filling bogus prescriptions for oxycodone and other prescriptions drugs and filing false insurance claims from Verree Pharmacy in Fox Chase, which he owned for more than three decades. The pharmacy became the largest purchaser of oxycodone in Pennsylvania by 2016. Spivack also must pay $4.1 million to the federal government to resolve a violation of the Controlled Substances Act.

The owner of Verree Pharmacy in Philadelphia's Fox Chase neighborhood has been sentenced to 3-and-a-half years in prison and will need to pay over $4 million...

By Bullion Shark LLC ...... Modern Proof coins that were struck at the San Francisco Mint, as most Proof coinage has been since 1968, normally bear an “S”

Pharmacies have long been a focus of enforcement actions brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG). This...