Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeDistrict of Maryland FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, February 11, 2021 Allegedly Fraudulently Replicated the Website of a Biotech Company That Has an Authorized COVID-19 Vaccine to Perpetrate the Scheme Baltimore, Maryland – A federal criminal complaint has been filed charging three men on the federal charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection…
Dark Web Trafficker Pleads Guilty to Distributing Opioids
Department of JusticeUS. Attorney’s OfficeEastern District of Virginia FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, February 9, 2021 ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A Florida man pleaded guilty today to unlawfully distributing thousands of prescription opioid pills in exchange for over half a million dollars through the “dark web.” According to court documents, between 2012 and 2020, Daren James Reid, 35, of Fort…
Indian Cancer Drug Manufacturer Agrees to Plead Guilty and Pay $50 Million for Concealing and Destroying Records in Advance of FDA Inspection
U.S. Department of Justice FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, February 9, 2021 Indian drug manufacturer Fresenius Kabi Oncology Limited (FKOL) has agreed to plead guilty to concealing and destroying records prior to a 2013 U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plant inspection and pay $50 million in fines and forfeiture, the Department of Justice announced today. In a criminal…
South Korean National Sentenced to Nearly 4 Years in Federal Prison for Smuggling Erectile Dysfunction Drugs Sold as Herbal Products
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeCentral District of California FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, February 9, 2021 SANTA ANA, California – A Fullerton man was sentenced today to 46 months in federal prison for illegally importing bulk quantities of erectile dysfunction drugs that he marketed as herbal male sexual enhancement products in a scheme that earned him millions of dollars. Nam…
Supervisory Paramedic Sentenced for Tampering with Drug Vials
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeNorthern District of Alabama FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, February 9, 2021 HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – A federal judge yesterday sentenced a supervisory paramedic for theft of fentanyl from a local ambulance service, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Special Agent in Charge Justin C. Fielder, U.S. Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations…
North Carolina Sport Supplement Company and Its Owner Plead Guilty to Unlawful Distribution of Steroid-like Drugs
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeWestern District of Virginia FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, November 24, 2020 ABINGDON, Virginia – A North Carolina resident, and his sport supplement company, pleaded guilty today to a felony charge relating to the introduction of unapproved new drugs into interstate commerce, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar announced. Brian Michael Parks, 47, of…
Business Owner Found Guilty of Committing Fraud Regarding Human Clinical Research Trials
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeEastern District of Washington FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMonday, December 25, 2019 Richland Man Found Guilty of 47 Counts in Federal Court Richland –William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Sami Anwar, 42, of Richland, WA, was found guilty late Friday of Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud,…
Israeli National Pleads Guilty to Bail Jumping
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeDistrict of New Hampshire FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, January 28, 2021 CONCORD – Boaz BenMoshe, 58, of Israel, pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday to bail jumping, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today. According to court documents and statements made in court, in November 2006, a federal grand jury charged BenMoshe…
Former Roanoke Pharmacist Sentenced for Tampering
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeWestern District of Virginia FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFriday, January 29, 2021 ROANOKE, Va. – Bryan Wade Lewis, a former pharmacist at Home Choice Partners in Roanoke, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court here for tampering with a consumer product, hydromorphone, that affected interstate commerce. Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar made the…
Former West Boylston Nurse Pleads Guilty to Tampering with Hydromorphone and Meperidine
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeDistrict of Massachusetts FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, January 28, 2021 BOSTON – A former nurse pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to tampering with opioids intended for emergency department patients at a hospital where he worked and then attempting to conceal his crime by replacing the diverted narcotics with saline. Mark Croft,…