A federal judge in Alaska sentenced rheumatologist Dr. Claribel Tan to six-and-a-half years in prison for administering substandard drugs to patients while fraudulently billing insurers
Online pharmacy-to-pharmacy marketplaces help with inventory management, but they also require vigilance because they carry a higher risk of being exploited by criminals selling black market medicines.
Wire fraud charges drove much higher penalties than the shipping of unsafe medicine into the supply chain, and the Boyds’ sentences were based on the government proving high-dollar, deliberate fraud.
A federal judge sentenced brothers Charles and Patrick Boyd to a combined 38 years in prison for running a nationwide scheme that sold counterfeit and diverted HIV medications to U.S. pharmacies.
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federal judge in Florida sentenced Charles and Patrick Boyd to a cumulative 38 years in prison. The brothers owned Safe Chain Solutions, a Cambridge, Maryland-based drug distributor at the center of a diversion ring that endangered the health of American patients by selling U.S. pharmacies over 85,00 counterfeit bottles of secondhand HIV medicine worth more than $250 million.
Sanjay Kumar got 43 months for selling counterfeit Keytruda. PSM wrote federal agencies about a Super Bowl ad promoting diagnostic tests and compounded medicines with false claims.
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