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Date: 12-11-2020
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Case Number: 3:15-cr-00027-TAV-DCP
Judge: Thomas A. Varlan
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee (Knox County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States District Attorney’s Office, Knoxville, Tennessee
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Description: Knoxville, Tennessee drug distribution criminal defense lawyers represented Defendant, Cynthia Clemons and Holli Carmichael Womack, who was charged with participating in a scheme to write prescriptions for massive quantities of
opioids.
The evidence at trial proved that, collectively, Clemons, Newman, and Womack prescribed millions of tablets of oxycodone, oxymorphone, and morphine from the pill mills. All told, the pill mills where these defendants worked generated over $21 million in revenue, with a corresponding street value of $360 million. The conspiracy involved four separate clinics in Tennessee, each of which the jury determined were drug-involved premises, i.e., pill mills. The proof at trial established that the vast majority of the patients at these pill mills were addicted to opioids.
This sweeping prosecution, which has resulted in approximately 140 convictions so far, is the result of an investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee, the Criminal Division’s Organized Crime and Gang Section (OCGS), and the FBI High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA), comprised of investigators assigned to the task force by the Loudon County Sheriff’s Office, Knoxville Police Department, Blount County Sheriff’s Office, Roane County Sheriff’s Office, Harriman Police Department, and Clinton Police Department. Other agencies provided invaluable assistance, including the Rome Attaché of the Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs, FBI’s liaison in Rome, FBI’s Miami Field Office, the Hollywood, Florida, Police Department, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Tennessee Department of Health, and the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Knoxville Diversion Group.
Deputy Chief Attorney Kelly Pearson and Trial Attorney Damare Theriot with OCGS and Assistant U.S. Attorney Tracy L. Stone prosecuted the case.
21 U.S.C. § 856(a)(1) and 18 U.S.C. § 2 - Maintaining a Drug-Involved Premises
21 U.S.C. § 856(a)(1) and 18 U.S.C. § 2 - Maintaining a Drug-Involved Premises
Outcome: ynthia Clemons was sentenced to 42 months in prison, Courtney Newman was sentenced to 40 months in prison, and Holli Carmichael Womack was sentenced to 30 months in prison.
Followed by 3 Years Supervised Release with a Condition to Served 200 Hours of Community Service. $200 Special Assessment.
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