Mitchell Spivack, longtime owner of Verree Pharmacy in Fox Chase, sentenced to prison for filling bogus oxycodone prescriptions, filing false insurance claims
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.