CARO, Mich. (AP) - A judge says more than $6 million in assets must be returned to a Michigan doctor who was acquitted of running a pill mill at his clinics.
The Saginaw News says Dr. Joseph Oesterling last year was acquitted of running a criminal enterprise. He was accused of excessively prescribing medicine through his clinics in Caro, Saginaw and Mount Pleasant.
Oesterling’s attorney, Ronald Chapman II, says a Tuscola County judge on Sept. 25 ordered authorities to return assets that had been seized. They include five vehicles, real estate and more than two dozen bank accounts.
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Tuscola County Prosecutor Mark Reene plans to appeal.
Oesterling previously served as chief of urology at University of Michigan Hospital.
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