Federal prosecutors say a Treasure Valley pain doctor kept sloppy records that left thousands of regulated pills unaccounted for. But the doctor says he is a victim of an employee who stole the drugs. A lawsuit filed Wednesday by U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson’s office against James Hurd Morland, a pain medicine specialist, could result [...]
Jessie Gianni. Photo courtesy Colorado Springs Police Department. A man arrested earlier this week nearly closes out a prescription drug ring discovered in 2015 that led to 25 people being charged. Jessie Gianni, 26, was arrested late Sunday on four warrants as he was leaving his motel room on South Nevada Avenue. Court documents revealed [...]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A Riverside woman was arrested Tuesday on charges of practicing medicine without a license after she illegally wrote prescriptions for her boyfriend, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said. Pamela Corley, 54, was employed as a medical assistant at a Riverside doctor's office until detectives linked her to prescription medicine fraud, according to her [...]
Seven individuals were arrested and indicted for their involvement in a prescription forgery scheme aimed at illicitly obtaining narcotics for resale. The defendants include 2 alleged leaders, Joseph Bivona and Steven Keller, who are being charged with operating a prescription forgery and drug diversion ring in New York City, according to a statement from the [...]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Police arrested a woman accused of stealing medication from a patient at Nashville's Trevecca Towers Retirement Homes. Every year healthcare fraud leads to a $60 billion loss for Medicare, no matter how small the crime. The most recent case reported in Nashville stems from a visit to the Trevecca Towers Retirement Homes [...]
A former University of Kentucky Hospital nurse is accused of stealing the painkiller fentanyl from the hospital by creating fake patient names, according to a Fayette County grand jury indictment. Richard L. Edwards, 36, of Lexington was indicted Monday on 22 counts of criminal falsification of medical records and one count of theft. Each count [...]
EAST ST. LOUIS • A paramedic had been charged in federal court here with 37 felonies after being accused of stealing the painkillers Fentanyl and morphine from Metro East ambulance inventories and hiding it with falsified records. Jason Laut, a former paramedic, supervisor and dispatch manager with Medstar Ambulance Co. altered “numerous” reports and logs to [...]
by: Michael Yoshida, Action News Jax Updated: Jan 23, 2017 - 11:39 PM A local nurse is accused of stealing from veterans. Action News Jax has been looking into this case for several weeks. We got our hands on part of the 89-page investigation into her actions. The pages detail how nurse Michelle Lynn Harris [...]
NASHVILLE, TN – (WJHL) – The chairman of Tennessee’s Senate Health and Welfare Committee says he and his staff are putting the finishing touches on a bill that would allow for the immediate suspensions of nursing licenses for nurses who fail drug tests and don’t have prescriptions for the drugs in question. Sen. Crowe says [...]
Three Lansing-area residents, including a former police officer, face felony Medicaid fraud and related drug charges in a prescription medication ring, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette announced today.(Photo: Getty Images) Three people are facing fraud charges after a local pharmacist alerted St. Clair County law enforcement of two suspicious prescriptions. According to the county sheriff department, [...]