A Cedar Rapids nurse who diverted narcotics to her own use at four major Eastern Iowa health care providers, including three hospitals, in less than two years, was sentenced today to five years in federal prison, according to a press release by the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Iowa. Sarah Jean [...]
Miami, Dec 16 A nurse in South Florida (USA) could face up to 10 years in prison for siphoning liquid fentanyl from surgical lines, which she refilled with saline solution and returned to an adulterated spot inside a hospital. Gave. locomotor surgery. A South Florida federal grand jury indicted nurse S. Dunton, 54, for tampering [...]
A Kentucky nurse [Jacqueline Brewster] facing criminal charges in Washington County for allegedly stealing narcotics while she was a travel employee at Johnson City Medical Center (JCMC) in 2021 has had her license to practice in Tennessee revoked. The action comes 17 months after Ballad Health reported the incident to TDH, which didn’t take emergency [...]
State prosecutors on Tuesday accused a now former Mount Nittany Medical Center nurse of using subterfuge and falsifying records to acquire morphine that she never administered to patients but rather kept for herself. According to a criminal complaint filed by investigators for the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office, access records and video showed registered nurse E. [...]
The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announced Alejandro Gort, a 39-year-old from Denver, was sentenced to five years of probation after he pleaded guilty to obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and deception. According to the plea agreement, Gort worked the night shift at a Denver hospital on March 3, 2021. [...]
A nurse at a Missouri, hospital pleaded guilty to a federal felony and admitted fraudulently obtaining fentanyl for her own personal use. Lindsay J. Maupin, 31, of Cape Girardeau, pleaded guilty in front of U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark to one felony count of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud. Maupin, a registered nurse, [...]
Officials in North Carolina announced first degree murder charges against a registered nurse accused of administering lethal doses of insulin to two patients. J. Hayes, 47, was arrested on two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder, Forsyth Country District Attorney Jim O’Neill said at a press conference Tuesday. Hayes is accused of [...]
A Calabasas pharmacist was convicted on Friday for health care fraud and a prescription drug diversion scheme involving two Southern California pharmacies, announced the U.S. Department of Justice in a press release. According to court documents, Irina Sadovsky, 53, submitted claims to Medicaid of California (Medi-Cal) and Medicare for prescription drugs that were never dispensed to [...]
A Butte nurse who admitted to stealing opiates while working at area medical centers was sentenced last week to one year and one day in prison, to be followed by one year of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said in a news release. Shantyl Marie Giacoletto, 30, pleaded guilty in June to unlawfully obtaining [...]
A former nurse pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to diverting opioids from two Massachusetts hospitals. 33-year-old Lisa Tarr, of St. Petersburg, Fla., pleaded guilty to four counts of unlawfully obtaining controlled substances by fraud, deception and subterfuge. U.S. Senior District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock scheduled sentencing for Feb. 7, 2023. Tarr [...]