PITTSBURGH, Pa. – A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
has been sentenced in federal court to 25 months’ imprisonment followed by four
years supervised release on her convictions for conspiring to commit health
care fraud and conspiring to distribute oxycodone, United States Attorney Scott
W. Brady announced today.
United States District Judge Mark R. Hornak imposed the
sentence on Teresa Bernardi, 56.
According to information presented to the court, Bernardi
participated in a criminal network of drug dealers that obtained opiate
painkillers and then illegally distributed them to users in the Pittsburgh
area. Bernardi acted as a broker to arrange for co-conspirators to sell
prescription opiates they obtained using prescriptions through health care
providers to William Richardson, the primary dealer in the conspiracy. The
conspirators paid for the prescriptions through taxpayer funded health care
insurance.
Assistant United States Attorney Brendan T. Conway
prosecuted this case on behalf of the government.
United States Attorney Brady commended the Federal Organized
Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigation led by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Pennsylvania
Office of the Attorney General, the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, and the
Allegheny County Police Department, for the investigation leading to the
successful prosecution of Bernardi.
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