Former Drug Firm Exec Sentenced to More Than 2 Years for Illegal Opioid Sales

Former Drug Firm Exec Sentenced to More Than 2 Years for Illegal Opioid Sales
Laurence Doud III, former CEO of Rochester Drug Co-Operative, exits the Manhattan Federal Courthouse in New York on April 23, 2019. Brendan McDermid/Reuters
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NEW YORK—The former chief executive of Rochester Drug Co-operative was sentenced to more than two years in prison on Wednesday for conspiring to distribute opioids illegally, in the first criminal opioid trafficking case against a drug wholesaler and its executives.

U.S. District Judge George Daniels sentenced Laurence Doud, 79, to 27 months at a hearing in Manhattan. Daniels said Doud’s crime was serious and “motivated solely by profit,” but that the government’s requested sentence was more than needed.