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Cedar Rapids doctor to pay $100K settlement in opioids case January 28, 2021 GMT CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A Cedar Rapids doctor has agreed to pay a $100,000 settlement over allegations that he prescribed opioids to patients who had no legitimate medical need for the drugs, federal prosecutors for Iowa said. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a news release that an investigation by the Iowa’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration found that Dr. Paul Lottes had violated the Controlled Substances Act. Prosecutors say that from August 2017 to April 201...

Webb Man Pleads Guilty To Drug Charges January 25, 2021 8:57 am clipart.com Sioux City, IA (KICD) — The US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa says they have reached a plea agreement with a Clay County man. An official statement from the office of prosecutor Peter E. Deegan Junior says 43-year-old Travis Grote of Webb made plead guilty Friday in federal court in Sioux City. The department says Grote was previously convicted for conspiring to manufacture and distribute meth, and was prohibited from possessing firearms. They say as part of the deal, Grote admitted he was par...