俄亥俄州电工参与诈骗非营利医疗机构 靠虚报发票与回扣获刑24个月
Pittsburgh——美国司法部宾夕法尼亚西区联邦检察官办公室10月19日宣布，一名参与诈骗非营利医疗机构 Primary Health Network 的电工已在联邦法院被判处24个月监禁，罪名是三项电汇诈骗罪。联邦检察官 Troy Rivetti 公布了这一判决。
获刑者为63岁的 John O'Brien，住 Ohio 州 Masury。联邦地区法官 J. Nicholas Ranjan 作出判决；法院在量刑时认定，O'Brien 在该案审判中作了虚假证词。
法庭文件显示，O'Brien 控制的 Keystone Tele-Data 公司为 Primary Health Network 在 Lewistown 的一个建设项目提供电气工程，该机构总部位于宾夕法尼亚州 Sharon 市、为项目的主租户。O'Brien 向被安插在该机构与其供应商之间的 TopCoat 公司提交虚报金额的发票，TopCoat 将费用连同进一步虚增的收费转嫁给 Primary Health Network，而 TopCoat 并未向该机构提供任何服务；Keystone Tele-Data 取得的部分款项被用于向同案人员 Mark Marriott 支付回扣。
此案另有三人此前已获刑：Primary Health Network 两名前首席执行官 Drew Pierce 与 Jack Laeng 于2026年4月分别获刑40个月与24个月，前设施经理 Mark Marriott 获刑30个月。此案由联邦调查局 FBI 与国税局刑事调查局 IRS-CI 调查，助理联邦检察官 William B. Guappone 负责起诉。
Ohio Electrician Sentenced to 24 Months for Role in Defrauding Non-Profit Medical Organization
Pittsburgh — An electrician convicted of joining in a scheme to defraud Primary Health Network, a non-profit medical organization headquartered in Sharon, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 24 months in prison on three counts of wire fraud, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania announced on October 19. U.S. Attorney Troy Rivetti made the announcement.
U.S. District Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan imposed the sentence on John O'Brien, 63, of Masury, Ohio. As part of the sentencing, the court found that O'Brien had provided false testimony at the trial in the matter.
According to information presented to the court, O'Brien controlled a company called Keystone Tele-Data, which performed electrical work on a construction project in Lewistown for which Primary Health Network was to be the master tenant. O'Brien joined in a scheme to defraud the organization by submitting fraudulently inflated invoices to TopCoat, a company inserted by former executives between the organization and its vendors. TopCoat passed along the costs and further fraudulent charges to Primary Health Network despite providing no services to it, and Keystone Tele-Data used the funds in part to pay kickbacks to Mark Marriott.
Three individuals were previously sentenced in the case: the organization's former CEOs Drew Pierce and Jack Laeng were both sentenced in April 2026, to 40 months and 24 months of imprisonment respectively, and former facilities manager Mark Marriott was sentenced to 30 months. The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Internal Revenue Service–Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney William B. Guappone.
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图片来源：图：位于Pittsburgh的Joseph F. Weis Jr.联邦法院大楼（判刑在此作出）。摄影Nyttend，维基共享资源，公共领域。Photo: The Joseph F. Weis Jr. U.S. Courthouse in Pittsburgh, where the sentence was imposed. By Nyttend, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
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