Back in 2017, the City of Pittsburgh gave Arlinda Moriarty a special proclamation for “Arlinda Moriarty Day” in honor of her work as owner of Moriarty Consultants, a home healthcare company.
No one who gave her that recognition knew she was a criminal who had been ripping off millions from Medicaid since 2011.
Now she’s headed to federal prison along with her sister and an uncle.
U.S. District Judge Cathy Bissoon on Wednesday sentenced Moriarty, 53, of Cranberry, to seven years behind bars. The judge gave her sister, Daynelle Dickens, 48, of Pittsburgh, two years. Their uncle, Tony Brown, 65, got three years of probation with three months of that on home detention.
The judge ordered Moriarty to pay $8.7 million in restitution to the Pennsylvania Medicaid program. Dickens will have to pay $1 million and Brown $43,000.
All three had pleaded guilty in May after being indicted in 2018 with a group of employees.