CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—August 5, 2014. A former physician who was affiliated with three Chicago hospitals was sentenced today to nearly six years in federal prison for illegally distributing prescription drugs in exchange for sex and cash. The defendant, JOSHUA D. BARON, a pediatric neurologist, pleaded guilty in March, admitting that he provided approximately 149 prescriptions for controlled substance medications, totaling thousands of doses, to 16 individuals in exchange for sex between 2006 and 2011. These individuals were…
