Cardiologist set to plea in methadone-related pill mill case
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pennsylvania cardiologist charged with running a pill mill along with a woman who ran a methadone clinic raided by federal agents last fall is set to plead guilty.
The defense attorney for Dr. Dominic DiLeo, of Uniontown, didn’t immediately comment on the plea scheduled Friday afternoon before a federal judge in Pittsburgh.
The 67-year-old doctor and 64-year-old Rosalind Sugarmann, of Allison Park, are accused of distributing drugs that weren’t for a legitimate medical purpose. She’s denied wrongdoing.
Sugarmann headed the Addiction Specialists clinic in North Union Township that caught fire in July and was raided last fall by federal agents.
They’re charged with 19 counts each of unlawfully dispensing Suboxone, a drug used to treat addicts of heroin and other opiates. But Suboxone can also be abused by people to get high.