ALAMO â According to the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Northern District of California, a judge sentenced 59-year-old Parto Karimi of Alamo was sentenced to one year and one day in prison on Friday. Karimi pleaded guilty in July to one count of distributing hydrocodone outside the scope of a professional practice.
During the investigation, an undercover agent visited Karimi's practice and asked for 10mg Norco tablets, claiming she had suffered leg pain due resulting from work as a restaurant server. In her plea agreement, Karimi admitted to writing a prescription for 60 high-dose Norco pills without physically examining the patient, without asking follow-up questions, without obtaining the patient's medical records or without exploring alternative treatment options.