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.
The 60-year-old was sentenced on Wednesday by Chief U.S. District Judge David Godbey, who found that Ortiz caused the death of his colleague. The judge said his other acts were “tantamount to attempted murder.”…