A nurse practitioner with licenses registered in Stockton and New York who allegedly sold opioids and other addictive drugs to clients around the country is the subject of a civil lawsuit announced Monday by federal prosecutors in Sacramento.
In the lawsuit filed last week in federal court, acting U.S. Attorney Michele Beckwith said Joan Rubinger traveled the country dispensing Oxycodone, Percocet, Xanax, Adderall and other drugs to buyers who paid on Venmo or with cash.
Using no physician as part of her practice and without examining any patients, she issued at least 900 prescriptions from 2019 to 2024, often communicating with buyers via text messages or on the app Telegram, the lawsuit says…