A Pennsylvania woman is accused of falsifying a cancer diagnosis and obtaining more than 8,000 oxycodone pills from multiple providers in three counties.
According to the office of the Pennsylvania attorney general, Brandi Bachman, 40, of Monroe County, is accused of fraudulently obtaining 8,298 oxycodone pills from 19 providers across Monroe, Lehigh, and Carbon counties under the guise of suffering from terminal cancer from 2021 to 2024.
The attorney general’s office said Bachman informed providers that she had terminal cancer, but said that getting documentation was difficult for various reasons. In instances where she did provide documentation, providers who were named identified them as forgeries…