Ex-employee, Cardinal both profited in buying discounted medicine
Robert Neil Spence is a name you probably haven't heard and Cardinal Health officials would rather not discuss.
He's a former Cardinal employee who pocketed more than $350,000 in kickbacks from a felon to purchase prescription drugs for the company.
While the Dublin pharmaceutical supplier has been dogged this year by federal authorities for the lack of regulatory compliance while selling drugs to rogue Internet pharmacies, Spence represents another practice under scrutiny: the purchase of discounted drugs on a secondary market from unscrupulous middlemen who often tamper with the goods.
By Mike Pramik
12 October 2008