California-state man pleads guilty to distributing altered chemotherapy drugs

A man from the state of California admits he has been part of a conspiracy to distributed adulterated chemotherapy drugs throughout the United States.  The federal prosecutor in St. Louis says James Newcomb will forfeit $1.4 million dollars he earned in the enterprise. Some of the adulterated drugs went to oncologist Abid Nisar in Town and Country. He pleaded guilty last week to receiving the drugs then selling them and getting reimbursements from the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Charges remain against a third person