Ex-pharmacy tech sentenced to five years for stealing $8.2M in HIV medicines

A former pharmacy technician from Essex County was sentenced Thursday to virtually 5 a long time in jail for stealing prescription HIV treatments from the Veterans Affairs Healthcare Coronary heart in East Orange, authorities reported.

Lisa M. Hoffman, 50, of Orange, pleaded responsible earlier this 12 months to theft of governing administration house. The treatments, which belonged to the U.S. Division of Veterans Affairs, had been worthy of greater than $8.2 million, prosecutors claimed.

U.S. District Court docket docket Resolve Esther Salas sentenced Hoffman to 4 yrs, 7 months by means of a listening to in Newark federal court docket docket, in accordance to U.S. Lawyer Philip R. Sellinger.