The Pharmacy Chief Who Skimmed the Bottles

For three years, the man in charge of the Erie VA’s pharmacy took hydrocodone and oxycodone out of bottles that were waiting to be delivered to veterans. Two years’ probation.

Court record — not allegation. The defendant in this case, Matthew Camera, 51 — Pharmacy Chief, Erie VA Medical Center, was convicted. The facts below are drawn from the official account of the case, linked at the bottom of this page.
Not stated in the release ("multiple dosage units")Amount diverted
OutcomeConvicted of federal drug-law violations; sentenced to two years’ probation (2022)
ForumU.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania

Camera was employed as the Pharmacy Chief at the Erie VA Medical Center from January 2017 to June 2020.

During that period, according to information presented to the court, he unlawfully obtained multiple dosage units of hydrocodone and oxycodone from pill bottles that were awaiting delivery to VA patients — skimming the medicine of veterans whose prescriptions he oversaw.

The VA Office of Inspector General investigated; U.S. District Judge Susan Paradise Baxter imposed the sentence. The release states no pill count or dollar figure, and this page invents none.

"he unlawfully obtained multiple dosage units of Hydrocodone and Oxycodone from pill bottles awaiting delivery"
— U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Pennsylvania
The system these cases ran through is run by Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins. The accountability record — the letters, the filings, the unanswered questions — is kept at DearDougCollins.com. For the veterans on the other side of the VA's machinery — including the exposure-classification fight — the hub is BrownWaterVet.com.

Source: U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Pennsylvania. Case file in the VA Fraud case files — part of the VA Fraud record. Cases are published as the courts decided them; amounts are stated as the Justice Department states them (billed, stolen, or ordered in restitution, as labeled).

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