Houston man pleads guilty in fake vaccine scheme

September 6, 2006

The owner of a Houston home health-care business pleaded guilty today to federal charges accusing him of selling fake flu vaccine that was injected into nursing home residents and 1,100 Exxon Mobil employees.

Iyad Abu El Hawa, 36, admitted that he purchased thousands of syringes and needles from an out-of-state company with the unauthorized use of a doctor's name.