A Texas anesthesiologist was sentenced to 190 years in federal prison on Wednesday for injecting drugs into intravenous (IV) bags at a surgical center where he worked, resulting in at least one death and numerous cardiac emergencies, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a Nov. 20 statement.
Following an eight-day trial in April, a jury convicted Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz Jr. on five counts of intentional adulteration of a drug, four counts of tampering with consumer products resulting in serious bodily injury, and one count of tampering with a consumer product.
