Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeDistrict of Puerto Rico FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, September 25, 2024 HHS OIG and FDA are in charge of the investigation SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – On September 19, 2024, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment charging 25 individuals with conspiracy to introduce misbranded drugs…
Magellan Diagnostics Pleads Guilty to Criminal FDCA Charges
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeDistrict of Massachusetts FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, June 27, 2024 BOSTON – Magellan Diagnostics, Inc., a medical device company headquartered in Billerica, Mass., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to criminal charges relating to its concealment of a device malfunction that produced inaccurately low lead test results for tens of…
Former New York Cheese Producer Sentenced for Selling Raw Milk Cheese Products Linked to Listeria Outbreak
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeNorthern District of New York FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, July 9, 2024 SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Johannes Vulto, age 64, a former raw milk cheese manufacturer, and Vulto Creamery LLC, the company Vulto founded and owned, were each sentenced today in federal court in Syracuse after each previously pleading guilty to one…
U.S. Compounding, Inc. Pleads Guilty To Multiple Fraud Offenses And Company Vice President Indicted In Scheme To Distribute Drugs Nationally Using False Prescriptions
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeSouthern District of New York FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, July 9, 2024 U.S. Compounding, Inc., a Subsidiary of a Publicly Traded Company, Pled Guilty to Mail Fraud and Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act Offense Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Christie M. Curtis, the…
Kenya and Uganda partner with international stakeholders to protect consumers from illicit medical products
Pharmacy Poisons Board of KenyaNational Drug Authority of Uganda FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFriday, July 12, 2024 Unprecedented Multilateral Initiative Brings Focus to the Shared Threat Posed by Illicit Medical Products Today, the Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) of Kenya and the National Drug Authority (NDA) of Uganda announce a groundbreaking bilateral initiative. This collaborative effort involves…
Richlands Woman Pleads Guilty to Selling Black Market Prescription Drugs
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeWestern District of Virginia FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFriday, July 12, 2024 Melissa Bandy Was Not a Licensed Healthcare Provider When She Distributed Rx Drugs ABINGDON, Va. – A Richlands, Virginia woman, who is not a licensed healthcare provider but received and distributed prescription drugs as well as other drugs that are not…
Operation Ancord VII: Collaboration Yields Significant Seizures of Illicit Medicines
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMonday, July 22, 2024 London, United Kingdom – The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) successfully executed Operation Ancord VII from May 12-18, 2024, in collaboration with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the United Kingdom (U.K.) Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the U.K. Border Force…
Upstate Pharmacist Sentenced for Unlawfully Compounding Radioactive Drugs
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeDistrict of South Carolina FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFriday, July 25, 2024 GREENVILLE, S.C. — Richard A. Sheriff, 73, of Easley, has pleaded guilty to adulteration of a drug and been sentenced to two years of probation. Sheriff also forfeited $166,000 in revenues. Evidence obtained in the investigation revealed that Sheriff was the owner…
Foreign National Charged for Selling Counterfeit Cancer Drugs
Department of JusticeOffice of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, July 25, 2024 A federal grand jury in Houston returned an indictment today charging an Indian national with selling and shipping tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of counterfeit oncology pharmaceuticals into the United States. According to court documents, Sanjay Kumar, 43, of Bihar, India,…
Fake Doctor Selling Unproven COVID-19 Cure is Sentenced to 36 Months
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeDistrict of Utah FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, July 30, 2024 Salt Lake City, Utah – A United States District Court Judge sentenced a Utah County man Monday, who posed as a fake doctor, to three years’ imprisonment and one year of supervised release after he scammed consumers looking to heal a variety…