TAYLOR, Mich. – A neurologist hit with 35 charges was in court Tuesday as he surrendered his medical license.
Dr. Ram Garg, who is accused of running what Taylor police call a nightmare pill mill that drew people from all over Michigan and Ohio, was in court on Tuesday, Oct. 29.
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He pleaded not guilty Tuesday afternoon to a scheme involving him writing bogus prescriptions for dangerous opioids and then allegedly making up fake medical bills to rake in millions of dollars.
Doctor’s home, clinic raided
Local 4 cameras were there when Taylor police raided Garg‘s Taylor clinic in late September with staggering allegations that the doctor was writing bogus prescriptions for narcotics highly addictive opioids to thousands from Michigan and Ohio. Garg’s 21,000-square-foot home on Surria Court in Bloomfield Hills was also raided.
Taylor police said Garg’s clinic on Telegraph Road was known as the place where the doctor would write prescriptions for painkillers if you needed them or not, fueling addiction and all that comes with it.
Taylor police Detective Jeff Adamisin, who has worked for four years on this case, said thousands of patients have gone to Garg for pills.
“Prescribing these pills without the legal medical proper reasoning to be prescribing them -- not only is that illegal, but that causes a huge issue with not only this city, not only this state -- but just the addiction and just the overdoses and the deaths that spin off from that is terrible,” Adamisin said in September.
So far, authorities have identified 16 bank accounts containing millions of dollars.
Garg facing 35 charges
Garg was hit with 35 charges from unlawful prescribing, falsifying medical records, and health care fraud.
Garg was released on a $100,000 personal bond.
Bedroom in clinic
We also first exposed that there is a bedroom in this clinic—not just a bed, a full bedroom, which a former employee called a recovery room.
Police are working on some allegations of sexual misconduct.
