Federal prosecutors on Tuesday asked a judge to schedule a "guilty plea hearing" for a Charleston neurologist facing a charge of violating a federal record-keeping law involving controlled substances.
Dr. Iraj Derakhshan was charged Monday with failing to report or record information regarding the dispensing of a Schedule II controlled substance to a patient on June 18, 2015.
The charge carries a maximum four-year prison sentence.
Derakhshan's medical license earlier this year was suspended for three years after he failed to keep appropriate medical records and didn't provide patients proper instructions for the use of controlled substances. He appealed the state Board of Medicine's decision suspending him.