Posts Tagged ‘Department of Justice’
Indian Man Will Spend 33 Months In Prison For Selling Misbranded Drugs To Americans
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that 44-year-old Mumbai Ramesh Buchirajam Akkela will spend 33 months in jail for shipping thousands of misbranded pills to customers around the U.S. without requiring a valid prescription…
[...]DOJ Announces Charges Against Four In Counterfeit Drug Case In Puerto Rico
The U.S. Department of Justice announced a 28-count indictment against four people in Puerto Rico for allegedly selling counterfeit and misbranded drugs on various online marketplaces for years…
[...]Louisiana Veterinarian Sent to Prison for Providing Misbranded Veterinary Drugs to Racehorses
Kyle James Hebert, a horse veterinarian from Lake Charles, Louisiana has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for illegally treating racehorses with a banned and misbranded performance enhancing drug.
[...]DOJ Announces News Cases In PA And OH Against Couples Selling Counterfeit Drugs and Fentanyl
U.S. Department of Justice announced two new cases. One is against a PA couple for manufacturing and selling counterfeit prescription pills made with heroin. The second case is against an OH couple charged with running a drug ring that imported and sold fentanyl and carfentanil in the Akron area…
[...]NY Pair To Pay $500K After Buying Misbranded Cancer Drugs
NY Oncologist Vincent Koh and his office manager wife Mimi agree to pay $500,000 administering illegally purchased and misbranded drugs on their Medicare cancer patients…
[...]Canadian Pharmacy Sells Counterfeit Cancer Drugs to Americans, Continues Business Despite U.S. Prosecution
Years after the appearance of counterfeit Avastin and other drugs in over 500 medical practices in 49 states kicked off an investigation, pending guilty pleas from CanadaDrugs.com, the CEO and two subsidiaries may bring some closure to the victims who were treated with the fake drugs and their families…
[...]Pair of California men Accused of Running a Huge Fentanyl Pill Ring
Andrew Tablack and Stephan Durham were running a “pill production facility” in California that could produce thousands of counterfeit pills. A break in the case came when New Jersey authorities seized a massive 44 pound shipment of pills in Monmouth County.
[...]Couple Sentenced For Smuggling And Injecting Clients With Fake Botox
Couple with no medical training, who repeatedly smuggled counterfeit cosmetic injectables into the U.S. and used them on their clients, received sentences for their crimes. Unfortunately, two of their clients have been left with permanent nerve damage…
[...]Known Counterfeit Cancer Drug Foreign Distributor Implicated in New Case
U.S. DOJ received guilty pleas from oncologist and wife who ordered misbranded cancer drugs from QSP, a CanadaDrugs.com wholesaler, 65 times over the course of 21 months while never informing their patients…
[...]Three FL Residents Pleaded Guilty to Importing, Making and Selling Counterfeit Medicines Online
The U.S. Department of Justice received guilty pleas from three individuals charged with being part of a conspiracy to import, manufacture, and sell counterfeit medicines online to customers around the U.S…
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