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Greenback Woman Facing Charges for TennCare Fraud

By Baker Associates

Fifty-four year-old Mary Shaffer of Greenback, Tennessee is facing thirteen counts of TennCare fraud and fourteen counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and identity theft after authorities say she used a relative?s forged prescriptions to obtain Hydrocodone. Tenncare fraud, fraud, and identity theft are all felony offenses in Tennessee and carry with them the possibility of multi-year prison sentences. In addition, defendants who are facing a large number of charges such as the defendant is here also run the risk of being sentenced to consecutive sentences which would stack the sentences on top of each other so that the defendant serves a much longer sentence than the one mandated for each individual offense.

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on September 13, 2010 (boomark / email).