KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A verdict has been reached in the case of three women accused of running a multimillion-dollar health care fraud scheme in West Knoxville for nearly six years.
Tiffany Haney and Anne Warren, the co-owners of Rocky Hill Pharmacy, and Tina Roper, identified in court documents as a pharmacy technician, were each found guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Haney was also found guilty of wire fraud, false statements relating to health care matter, and aggravated identity theft, while Warren was found guilty of wire fraud, two counts of false statements relating to health care matters, and two counts of aggravated identity theft. Roper was also found not guilty of wire fraud.
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The federal trial began in late February, with jury deliberations starting on Wednesday. Court documents from the 14th day of trial stated that the prosecution’s arguments in the case ended on Tuesday. District Judge Thomas A. Varlan also granted a motion to dismiss 11 of the 21 charges against Haney, Warren and Roper Tuesday.
The Rocky Hill Pharmacy was raided by the FBI in April 2024. Prosecutors claimed that Haney, Warren and Roper altered or forged prescriptions for medications that were not prescribed by licensed health care providers and used those prescriptions to defraud government health care programs and commercial insurance companies out of millions of dollars.
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An indictment stated that the scheme began in 2018 and netted more than $8.5 million over six years…