Donna Moonda gets state prison time for probation violation


October 11, 2007 at 5:21p.m.

Donna Moonda gets state prison time for probation violation

MERCER, Pa. — It wasn’t the homecoming Donna Moonda expected.

The Hermitage, Pa., woman convicted in federal court in the murder for hire of her wealthy physician husband returned to Mercer County today to be sentenced on a probation violation.

Judge Francis J. Fornelli of Mercer County Common Pleas Court sentenced Moonda, 48, to 1 1/2 to three years in state prison for violating the terms of probation she received in 2004 after being charged with stealing fentanyl, a pain killer, from UPMC Horizon in Greenville, where she was a nurse.

This sentence is consecutive to the life imprisonment sentence she received after her federal trial.

A visibly upset and crying Moonda refused to speak during her sentencing. Her attorney Jack Cline said after the hearing she was advised not to speak because she is appealing her conviction.

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