Court briefs

Doctor sentenced in diet pill scheme

A Boone County doctor who pleaded guilty to participating in anillegal distribution of diet pills will spend a year and a day inprison.

Brian J. McDevitt was sentenced Tuesday in federal court inCharleston. The 46-year-old Turtle Creek resident also must pay a$60,000 fine.

McDevitt had pleaded guilty in January to conspiring to allowothers to use his federal registration number to distributePhentermine.

The U.S. Attorney's Office says McDevitt practiced in Varney,Huntington and Chapmanville.

A stipulation of facts entered with McDevitt's plea says threeemployees at the Varney clinic used McDevitt's federal registrationnumber on more than 800 occasions to illegally distribute the pills.

City man pleads guilty to embezzlement

A Charleston investment adviser has pleaded guilty to embezzlingfrom a company's employee benefit plan.

The federal prosecutor's office says 50-year-old Knox Fuquaentered his plea before U.S. District Judge John T. Copenhaver Jr.on Wednesday. Fuqua faces up to five years in prison when he issentenced Sept. 28.

At the hearing, Fuqua admitted misappropriating and converting$600,000 from the Community Health Systems Inc. 401(k) plan to meetthe demands of another client who sought the return of previousinvestments.

compiled from wire reports