CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Dr. Parth Bharill, a Pittsburgh
and Morgantown physician, was sentenced today to five years probation, with the
first six months on home confinement, for a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill
Powell announced.
Bharill, age 61, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pled guilty to
one count of “Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances Outside the Bounds
of Professional Medical Practice” in September 2019. Bharill admitted to
working with the Redirections Treatment Advocates, LLC, of Morgantown, West Virginia,
to write illegitimate prescriptions for suboxone. The crime occurred from
November 2014 to January 2018 in Monongalia County, West Virginia.
Bharill was ordered to pay a $50,000 fine, as well as
$23,076.95 in restitution. The judge also imposed an order of forfeiture of
$12,312.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah E. Wagner prosecuted the case
on behalf of the government. The Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, and the Inspector General at the U.S Department of
Health and Human Services investigated.
U.S. District Judge Thomas S. Kleeh presided.
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