MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota doctor accused of illegally prescribing an opioid for Prince a week before the musician died agreed Thursday to pay $30,000 to settle a federal civil claim.
The settlement comes as state prosecutors are planning to announce whether anyone will be charged in the two-year investigation into Prince’s death.
Prince died on April 21, 2016, from an accidental overdose of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid. No one has been criminally charged.
But the federal government alleges that Dr. Michael Todd Schulenberg violated the Controlled Substances Act when he wrote a prescription in someone else’s name on April 14, 2016.
The settlement released Thursday doesn’t name Prince, but search warrants previously released say Schulenberg wrote a prescription for oxycodone in the name of Prince’s bodyguard, intending it to go to Prince.
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