EXCLUSIVE: Pill mill kingpin Jeff George resentenced, set to walk free after 13 years
WPBF 25 News
[{'start': '0.834', 'end': '2.868', 'text': "COMING UP.  TIFF CHRIS THANK YOU.  WELL, TONIGHT IN A WPBF 25 NEWS  INVESTIGATION, THE WELLINGTON  MAN WHO ONCE RAN THE COUNTRY'S  LARGEST PAINKILLER TRAFFICKING  RING IS GETTING OUT OF PRISON  AFTER 13 YEARS BEHIND BARS.  PILL MILL KINGPIN JEFF GEORGE  WAS IN COURT THIS MORNING FOR A  RESENTENCING ON A SECOND DEGREE  MURDER CHARGE.  THAT CHARGE STEMMED FROM THE  2009 OVERDOSE DEATH OF ONE OF  HIS CUSTOMERS, INVESTIGATIVE  REPORTER TERRI PARKER FIRST  BROKE THE STORY OF GEORGE AND  HIS TWIN BROTHER CHRIS, SAYS  PALM BEACH COUNTY PAIN CLINICS.  AND SHE JOINS US NOW WITH THIS  UPDATE THAT YOU WILL ONLY SEE ON  WPBF 25 NEWS.  AND TERRY GEORGE IS GETTING OUT  OF JAIL ABOUT FOUR YEARS EARLY.  THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT, TIFFANY.  HE WAS SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS FOR  THE DEATH OF JOEY BARTOLUCCI.  HE ALSO SERVED 15 YEARS FOR  FEDERAL CRIMES.  BUT TONIGHT HE IS ABOUT TO GO  FREE.  AND GEORGE WAS IN COURT TODAY  APOLOGIZING TO THE FAMILY AND  SAYING HE'S SORRY FOR WHAT  HAPPENED.  JEFF AND CHRIS GEORGE RAN  SEVERAL PAIN CLINICS IN PALM  BEACH AND BROWARD COUNTY IN THE  EARLY 2000, RAKING IN MILLIONS  AS OXYCODONE USERS FROM ACROSS  THE COUNTRY LINED UP TO GET THE  ADDICTIVE DRUGS.  EVENTUALLY, THE FEDS MOVED IN,  RAIDED THE CLINICS AND THEIR  HOMES, SEIZED THEIR CASH, AND  SENT THE BROTHERS TO PRISON.  THIS MORNING, PROSECUTORS AGREED  NOT TO FIGHT GEORGE'S ATTEMPT TO  REDUCE HIS SENTENCE BASED ON A  FOURTH DCA RULING IN HIS  CO-DEFENDANTS CASE.  THAT RULING SAID THERE WASN'T  ENOUGH FACTUAL EVIDENCE TO  SUPPORT A SECOND DEGREE MURDER  CHARGE.  JOEY BARTOLUCCI, HIS MOTHER AND  SISTER WERE IN COURT, NOT HAPPY  WITH GEORGE'S RELEASE, BUT  RESIGNED TO IT, AND HE WAS A  LOYAL AND I MISS HIM.  I'M 72 NOW AND I REALLY MISS  HIM.  I APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE AND  I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT YOU ARE  SUFFERING AND WHAT YOU HAVE  SUFFERED.  JEFF GEORGE ASKED TO SPEAK  DIRECTLY TO THE FAMILY AND  APOLOGIZE.  I'M OBVIOUSLY DEEPLY SORRY FOR  WHAT HAPPENED.  I REGRET MY ACTIONS THAT CAUSED  THIS.  JOEY BARTOLUCCI OVERDOSED ON A  MASSIVE QUANTITY OF PAINKILLERS  AND XANAX.  A DOCTOR AT GEORGE'S EAST COAST  PAIN CLINIC, PRESCRIBED IN 2009.  HIS SISTER OFFERED GEORGE SOME  ADVICE.  WE DO, MISS JOEY.  WE'RE GOING TO THE CEMETERY  AFTER THIS, SO.  I JUST HOPE THAT YOU TOOK IT  SERIOUSLY, THAT YOU TAKE IT  SERIOUSLY, AND THAT MOVING ON  WITH YOUR LIFE, YOU REALLY TRY  TO DO BETTER.  GEORGE SAYS HE HAS INDEED  LEARNED SOME VALUABLE LESSONS IN  PRISON.  AND I'M JUST SORRY FOR YOUR PAIN  EVERY DAY.  I HOPE IT GETS BETTER.  AND JEFF GEORGE WAS TRANSFERRED  FROM PRISON HERE TO THE PALM  BEACH COUNTY JAIL SO HE COULD  ATTEND THIS HEARING.  HE'S NOW WAITING ON PAPERWORK  BEFORE HE IS FINALLY, FINALLY  RELEASED FROM JAIL.  AND HIS TWIN, CHRIS GEORGE, WHOM  I INTERVIEWED EARLIER THIS YEAR,  HASN'T SEEN HIM IN ALL OF THIS  TIME SINCE HE'S BEEN  INCARCERATED.  CHRIS ALSO SPENT 11 YEARS IN  PRISON.  NOW HE IS OFF PROBATION AND IS  WORKING AS A CONTRACTOR."}]