He was not paid anything at all, and that is the part that took me longest.

Here is what he actually was.

Dr.

Reyes had a prescribing problem.

Not a criminal enterprise — a pattern.

His numbers were outside the norm for his specialty and his region, and he had received a letter from the state medical board in 2023 and a second one in 2024, and there was a review pending at the time all this happened.

He was, in the language of his own attorney at sentencing, “a man with a file open on him and a sister with a fiancé who knew it.”