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Throngs of people hang outside the American Pain clinic in Boca Raton, Florida, waiting their turn. Inside, a doctor greets them one by one and prescribes them pain medication, a
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Ran her clinic by the books, it came to the attention of the dea task force. >> we had received complaints on it. so, we sent somebody in to see what we could do. >> and guess who the task force sent? john friskey, the computer expert. he also happened to be a dea informant. >> every time i went in there, i wore a wire from the dea. >> when you wore the wire, what were you assigned to do? >> my main goal was to get anything that would piece it together and prove it was a pill mill. >> he talked to cindy a lot. fishing, really, for what might be evidence of medical fraud. and then one day, it w...
Pony rides, a piñata, a cake. cindy, remember, had always been an ambitious person. now that she was a family breadwinner, in 2010, two years after the murder, she and a partner opened a clinic that specialized in managing pain, located in nearby broward county, just north of miami. she hired this man to help get the business going. his name is john friskey. >> i was selling her computers and helping her get set up. >> pain management clinics were popping up all over south florida just about then, and some of them were suspected of being so called "pill mills", where unethical doctors got ric...
>> so, i went through hell and back, you know? >> it was the story of how her husband was murdered and her son wounded. and how she suspected her husband's business partner, illam nissim, arranged it all. and then, she said, when she decided the police were never going to arrest him -- >> i was like, i have to do something... i can't let this go. i won't let it go. an eye for an eye. i want his daughter to grow up without a father just like my son. >> and that's when a completely different story emerged, about the day she shot nissim. a far cry from the one she told the police. nissim didn't b...