COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio woman has pleaded guilty to helping operate a southern Ohio pain clinic where authorities allege quotas required employees to fill 30 to 40 prescriptions of powerful painkillers a day at $125 a visit.
Federal prosecutors allege customers would travel 200 miles on round-trip visits to the clinic to obtain illegally prescribed pain pills.
Lisa Clevenger on Wednesday pleaded guilty to one count of maintaining a drug premises in connection with her work at Ohio Medical and Pain Management in Waverly.
The charge carries up to a 20-year prison sentence, but Clevenger's plea agreement notes that prosecutors could ask for a shorter sentence as long as she cooperates with an ongoing investigation.
Authorities say Clevenger is the sister of the clinic's primary owner, who has also been charged.
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