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Date: 12-13-2021
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Case Number: 2:17-cr-00283-NBF
Judge: Nora Barry Fischer
Court: United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged for unlawfully distributing controlled drugs.
Terry Brown, a resident of Wexford, Pennsylvania owned and operated Cherry Way, a Suboxone clinic, located in Bridgeville PA, and Foster was a medical director at Cherry Way. Brown and Foster conspired together to create and submit unlawful prescriptions for Suboxone, Adderall and Percocet, and then unlawfully dispensed those controlled substances to Brown and to other persons not specifically named in the Indictment..
Assistant United States Attorney Robert R. Cessar prosecuted this case on behalf of the government.
The investigation leading to the filing of charges in this case was conducted by the Western Pennsylvania Opioid Fraud and Abuse Detection Unit (OFADU). The Western Pennsylvania OFADU, led by federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, combines the expertise and resources of federal and state law enforcement to address the role played by unethical medical professionals in the opioid epidemic.
The agencies which comprise the Western Pennsylvania OFADU include: Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Health and Human Services – Office of Inspector General, Drug Enforcement Administration, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigations, Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General - Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General – Bureau of Narcotic Investigations, United States Postal Inspection Service, U.S. Attorney’s Office – Criminal Division, Civil Division and Asset Forfeiture Unit, Department of Veterans Affairs-Office of Inspector General, Food and Drug Administration-Office of Criminal Investigations, U.S. Office of Personnel Management – Office of Inspector General and the Pennsylvania Bureau of Licensing.
21 U.S.C. 841 (a) (1) and 841 (b) (1) (C); 18 U.S.C 2 UNLAWFUL DISPENSING AND DISTRIBUTING SCHEDULE II CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
(20)
Outcome: Sentence Imposed at Counts 20, 27, 33, 34, and 39: The defendant is hereby committed to the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons to be imprisoned for a total term of fifteen (15) months, said term comprised of fifteen (15) months at each of Counts 20, 27, 33, 34, and 39, said terms to be served concurrently; Three (3) years' Supervised Release, said term comprised of three (3) years at each of Counts 20, 27, 33, 34 and 39, said terms to run concurrently w/standard and additional conditions; Restitution ordered in the amount of $4,845.24 (Interest waived) (payment details stated more fully in Judgment); Fine waived; $500.00 Special Assessment was paid 9/18/18 [77].
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