Degenerate Howard K. Stern who bears moral responsibility for the overdose of Anna Nicole Smith (as well as her son) along with two doctors have been indicted on fraud and drug charges according to GretaWire:

 Filing of the case by the Major Narcotics Division culminated an investigation involving the offices of the California State Attorney General and Los Angeles County District Attorney, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the California Medical Board and the California Department of Insurance.

Named in the complaint are doctors Sandeep Kapoor, 40 (dob 5-20-1968), and Khristine Eroshevich, 61 (dob 11-8-1947), and attorney Howard Kevin Stern, 40 (dob 11-29-1968). Arraignment dates for the defendants have not yet been scheduled. Bail was recommended at $20,000 for each defendant.

The conspiracy counts alleged that the three defendants conspired to furnish controlled substances to Smith from between June 5, 2004, and January 26, 2007.

Kapoor and Stern were charged with one count of unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance between June 9, 2004, and Sept. 22, 2006. Eroshevich and Stern were charged with unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance between June 5, 2004, and Jan. 26, 2007.

Stern and the two doctors should also be charged with depraved indifference homicide if you ask me. The greedy trio kept the mother doped up even though they must have known she had a drug problem and even after her son overdosed. It is clear to any observer Stern wanted her compliant and dependent, thus he procured drugs for her no doubt so he could get his hands on her late husbands cash.

From the Associated Press:

Documents obtained by The Associated Press after Smith’s death showed Eroshevich authorized all 11 prescription medications found in the model’s hotel room the day she died. Most of the drugs were prescribed in the name of Stern, her lawyer-turned-companion, and none were prescribed in Smith’s own name.

The quantity was staggering. More than 600 pills — including about 450 muscle relaxants — were missing from prescriptions that were no more than five weeks old. Ultimately, it was a syrup — the powerful sleeping aid chloral hydrate — blamed with tipping the balance in the toxic mix of drugs and causing her death.

Stern, who initially claimed he was the father of Smith’s infant daughter, Dannielynn, appeared distraught as he spoke last year at a memorial marking the one-year anniversary of Smith’s death.

“Few people who knew Anna might not realize how smart she actually was because unless she wanted you to know you didn’t know,” Stern said.

Stern, who came to the Bahamas with Smith during her pregnancy in 2006, gave up custody of Dannielynn in spring 2007 after DNA tests proved Smith’s ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead was the father.

Dannielynn has been named the sole heir of her late mother’s estate, with Birkhead and Stern as co-trustees. Dannielynn could inherit millions of dollars if the estate wins an ongoing court fight over the oil fortune of Anna Nicole’s late second husband, J. Howard Marshall.

You don’t need to be Jessica Fletcher to figure this one out. Unfortunately according to the Associated Press Smith’s body was found on Amerindian tribal land and the investigation was handled by their tribal police originally. No offense but I suspect they might have missed some clues. And isn’t it weird that whenever Howard K. Stern travels to outside American legal jurisdiction somebody dies? I’m just asking questions.

When I was more inclined to frequent bars I met a lot of Howard K. Sterns. Mostly unemployed, these were people of, as my grandmother would say, low character who kept their meat hooks in some woman who was out of their league (and usually their meal ticket) by plying them with drugs and alcohol and playing on their emotional problems.  Even before her son died and an out of control Smith was becoming a money making train wreck humiliating herself in appearance after appearance while Stern looked shifty in the background I, and lot of people just like me could see what was going on and how this would end.

I’m just glad that he doesn’t have custody of Smith’s baby and now Smith can get some justice. Not enough, but at least it’s something.