United States v. HSBC — Led the investigation into the bank’s failure to identify money laundering by Mexican drug cartels and terrorist organizations, resulting in a near-$2 billion penalty against the bank.
United States v. McKesson Corporation — Helped broker a $150 million settlement over the company’s filling of suspicious opioid orders placed by West Virginia pharmacies.
United States v. Jonathan and Diana Toebbe — Prosecuted the husband-and-wife espionage case involving the attempted sale of U.S. Navy submarine defense technology to a foreign adversary; resulted in sentences of 19 and 21 years, respectively — among the longest ever imposed for espionage.
United States v. Jeffrey Morris (Roxby Development) — Prosecuted the Wheeling real estate developer for wire fraud and tax evasion after he took roughly $7 million from more than 20 investors under false pretenses; sentenced to 5 years.
United States v. Barton Adams and Josephine Adams — Prosecuted the Vienna, WV physician (owner of Interventional Pain Management) for health care fraud and tax evasion, and his wife for laundering roughly $4 million in fraud proceeds through shell companies and offshore accounts in the British Virgin Islands, Canada, China, and the Philippines. Dr. Adams was sentenced to 50 months in prison and ordered to forfeit $3,724,721 and pay $3,136,293 in restitution to Medicare, Medicaid, and other defrauded healthcare providers. Josephine Adams was separately convicted for her role in laundering the proceeds.
Federal Drug Trafficking & Organized Crime
United States v. Personne “Rico” McGhee, et al. — Led the multi-agency investigation and indictment that dismantled a Sinaloa Cartel-connected drug trafficking network responsible for supplying large quantities of fentanyl, cocaine, and methamphetamine across the Ohio Valley; resulted in the seizure of nearly $300,000 in cash, multiple firearms, and real estate, and lengthy sentences for network members.
United States v. David Kidd, et al. — Led the prosecution of a multi-state “doctor shopping” conspiracy in which defendants traveled to Florida and South Carolina to fraudulently obtain oxycodone prescriptions for distribution throughout the Ohio Valley.
Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Fraud
United States v. Mario Blount — Prosecuted the Bridgeport, WV pharmacist (and sitting Bridgeport mayor) for conspiring to distribute prescription painkillers outside the legitimate scope of pharmacy practice, including filling a fraudulent prescription for a deceased patient. Blount pled guilty, was sentenced to 36 months in prison, and permanently surrendered his pharmacy license.
United States v. Dr. Edita Milan — Prosecuted the Bridgeport physician for running a “pill mill” that prescribed excessive quantities of painkillers with no legitimate medical purpose, tied to multiple overdose deaths in the area. Milan pled no contest to multiple felony counts and was sentenced to 60 months in prison.
United States v. Tressie Duffy, M.D. — Prosecuted the Martinsburg physician for repeatedly signing blank prescription orders and permitting unlicensed staff to issue narcotic prescriptions to patients she had never examined. Duffy pled guilty to seven counts of unlawful distribution of oxycodone.
