A Rainbow City woman has been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay restitution and fines after she pleaded guilty in July to health care fraud for illegal prescription reimbursements she received while working as a pharmacy technician at an East Gadsden drugstore, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance.
Charlotte Turley, 52, was sentenced to one and a half years in prison by U.S. District Judge C. Lynwood Smith Jr. She was ordered to pay restitution of $311,118 to Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Alabama and ordered to pay the same amount to the federal government for the illegal activity, according to the news release.
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