Judge grants motion to travel request for man indicted in North Union pill-mill case
One of the people charged in connection with a North Union pill-mill operation was granted a request to travel out of state by a federal judge this week.
Meagan Temple, the attorney for Brandon Eicher of Smithfield, filed a motion in federal court on Tuesday, requesting that Eicher travel by personal vehicle to Virginia Beach, Virginia, with his family from today through Oct. 2.
Prosecutors had no objections to the travel request, which was granted by U.S. District Judge Nora Barry Fischer.
Eicher was the clinical director of the former Addiction Specialists Inc. where Dr. Dominic DiLeo of Uniontown illegally distributed Xanax.
Eicher was indicted on charges of alleged healthcare fraud; DiLeo has pleaded guilty in the case and is awaiting sentencing.
Also indicted in the incident was clinic operator Rosalind Sugarmann of Allison Park and clinic counselor Lou Polito of Uniontown.
The state ordered the clinic to shut down in May, and it has since filed for bankruptcy.
DiLeo and Sugarmann were charged with 19 counts of unlawfully dispensing Suboxone, and DiLeo was charged with 194 counts of supplying Suboxone to Sugarmann, on a weekly basis from January 2013 until early July 2015. He allegedly gave her the drugs under the alias “Larry Greene.”
Eicher, Sugarmann and Polito are currently awaiting to file pre-trial motions.
All defendants are free on bond.