Jennifer Troy, Health Care Fraud, Pennsylvania 2024

Pittsburgh Woman Sentenced for Health Care Fraud

PITTSBURGH, PA (June 10, 2024) - Jennifer Troy, 41, of Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for her role in a large-scale health care fraud and prescription pill distribution network.

According to information presented to the court, Troy, along with James Roberson, 62, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Antoinette Adair, 49, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, were all part of the same group of individuals involved in the scheme. As part of the criminal enterprise, they obtained powerful and addictive prescription pain medication through physicians under the false pretense that they intended to use the medication themselves.

Instead, they intended to sell the medication for profit to individuals addicted to those medications. Additionally, medication was often paid for through taxpayer-funded health care insurance programs. Thus, the taxpayers ended up paying for much of the prescription medications that these conspirators sold.

Jennifer Troy was convicted of a charge of Conspiracy to Distribute Oxycodone and Oxymorphone. Her sister, Jaqueline Bauer, also traveled to the Detroit area with Troy to transport large quantities of pills to the Pittsburgh area for distribution on behalf of a pill supplier from the Detroit area named Kavon Dawkins.

Troy's role in the conspiracy involved, among other things, traveling to the Detroit area with her sister for the purposes of transporting large quantities of pills to the Pittsburgh area for distribution on behalf of Dawkins. Both Bauer and Dawkins have pleaded guilty to their roles in the distribution network and are awaiting sentencing.

A total of 18 individuals have been indicted in connection with this health care fraud and pill distribution conspiracy. Ten of those individuals have pleaded guilty, with two others scheduled to plead guilty shortly.

Assistant United States Attorney Brendan T. Conway is prosecuting these cases on behalf of the government. United States Attorney Scott W. Brady commended the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration for the investigation leading to the successful prosecution of these defendants.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr/two-sentenced-another-pleads-guilty-health-care-fraud-scheme-involving-prescription