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Feds: Theft Of $8.2M In HIV Meds From Vets Hospital Gets Bergen Man 2½ Years Without Parole Feds: Theft Of $8.2M In HIV Meds From Vets Hospital Gets Bergen Man 2½ Years Without Parole
Feds: Theft Of $8.2M In HIV Meds From Vets Hospital Gets Bergen Man 2½ Years Without Parole UPDATE: A Lyndhurst man was sentenced to 2½ years in federal prison for conspiring to steal $8.2 million worth of HIV medications from a New Jersey veterans hospital to sell on the black market. Wagner Checonolasco, 34, must serve out just about all of the plea-bargained sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Checonolasco, better known as “Wanny,” had an accomplice in Lisa M. Hoffman of Orange, who worked in the pharmacy of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in East Orange, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. Surveillance cameras helped show how Hoffman “plac…

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