San Diego doctor Jennings Staley pleaded guilty to attempting to smuggle in a barrel of hydroxychloroquine powder with the help of a Chinese supplier.
Highlights
- Jennings Ryan Staley was sentenced last week to 30 days in prison and a year of home confinement for the scheme.
- He pleaded guilty last year to trafficking in hydroxychloroquine, a drug used to treat the coronavirus.
- The drug was touted by President Donald Trump, starting in the early days of the pandemic, as a “game changer’s game changer.
- Studies later found the drug is not an effective treatment for covid and did not prevent people from becoming sick.
- Staley also admitted to posing as one of his employees to pose as a fake patient for $4,000 to fill a prescription.