A pharmacist has been remanded in custody after she pleaded guilty to stealing €70,000 from the Health Service Executive in a scheme involving falsifying drug payment scheme claims. Christine Crowley (72) from Main Street, Drimoleague, Co Cork pleaded guilty to 21 sample counts of theft and fraud from a total of 174 charges . The [...]
HelioMetrics Comment: Here are more details from this very sad story of a child's death due to a nurse diverting drugs. We will do our best to follow this story and post all updates that we see. Our first post on this story was here: Update is below: ALLEGAN, Mich. (WOOD) — A former nurse [...]
Bipartisan members of the House Veterans Affairs Committee have expressed concern about diversion of drugs within VA medical facilities, particularly opioids, by VA employees for their own use or to sell. “I am concerned that VA’s controlled substance oversight program is not working and that staff who fail to follow proper procedures are not being [...]
A former Midlothian physician was convicted Wednesday of writing 52 prescriptions over 1½ years for highly addictive opioid drugs in a fraud scheme that involved six accomplices and netted the doctor a cut of the narcotics. Dr. Kyle Douglas Compton, 40, whose license to practice has been suspended, issued unlawful prescriptions from his former home-based [...]
WESTAMPTON - A Delanco woman is accused of using a forged prescription in a bid to get painkillers. Stephanie Schwarz, 31, was arrested shortly before 1 p.m. Tuesday at a CVS pharmacy on Springside Road in Westampton, authorities said. Haddonfield woman admits role in scam A pharmacist alerted police after Schwarz allegedly presented a forged [...]
NEWARK -- A 39-year-old South Jersey woman who worked for a pharmaceutical company admitted her role in a multi-pronged scheme that cost her employer nearly a $1 million. Julie Andresen, of Haddonfield, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud in federal court in Newark on Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney's Office for [...]
HADDONFIELD, NJ — A former pharmaceutical company employee from Haddonfield has admitted to accepting thousands of dollars in exchange for filling medically unnecessary prescriptions for compounded medications for herself and her husband, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said on Tuesday. The actions of 39-year-old Julie Andresen resulted in the loss of $956,885, according to Fishman. [...]
By HOPE YEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Department of Veterans Affairs said Monday it would boost employee drug testing and inspections amid rising cases of opioid theft and missing prescriptions, acknowledging gaps that had allowed thousands of doctors, nurses and other staff to go unchecked for signs of illicit drug use. Testifying at [...]
Updated: Feb 27, 2017 - 6:24 PM ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - An Orange County dispatcher was arrested last week after a nearly yearlong investigation into an alleged scheme to illegally acquire prescription painkillers. Jojilda Disla, who had been a 911 dispatcher for nine years, is currently suspended without pay as the investigation continues. Disla is [...]
A trial setting in the case of a Marshall woman charged with 134 counts of fraudulently attempting to obtain a controlled substance was reset Monday, Feb. 27, after charges were amended by the Saline County Prosecutor's Office. Eleven additional felony counts were charged against Anne Marie Coke, 36, of Marshall. Each of the 11 new [...]