Department of Justice FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, April 21, 2020 Southern California-Based Company Agrees to Pay Largest-Ever Fine in a Food Safety Case and Implement a Comprehensive Food Safety Compliance Program LOS ANGELES – Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. has agreed to pay a $25 million criminal fine and institute a comprehensive food safety program to resolve criminal charges…
Pharmacist Arrested and Charged with Firebombing Plot
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeEastern District of Virginia FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFriday, April 17, 2020 ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A Nebraska pharmacist was arrested today on charges related to an alleged conspiracy to use explosives, specifically Molotov cocktails, to firebomb and destroy a competitor pharmacy. According to court documents, Hyrum T. Wilson, 41, of Auburn, told an alleged co-conspirator:…
Carmel Valley Physician Charged with Fraud for Selling Purported COVID-19 “Miracle Cure”
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeSouthern District of California FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, April 16, 2020 SAN DIEGO – Dr. Jennings Ryan Staley, a licensed physician and the operator of Skinny Beach Med Spa in San Diego, was charged today with mail fraud in connection with the sale of what he described as a “100%” cure for COVID-19 that…
Darknet Vendor Arrested on Distribution and Money Laundering Charges
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeEastern District of Virginia FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, April 9, 2020 ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A Maryland man was arrested today on charges related to his alleged unlawful distribution of medications through the Darknet, and money laundering involving Bitcoin. According to court documents, William Anderson Burgamy IV, 32, of Hanover, recently posted on his Darknet…
Pentax Medical Company Agrees to Pay $43 Million to Resolve Criminal Investigation Concerning Misbranded Endoscopes
Department of Justice FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, April 7, 2020 Company Shipped Medical Devices Without Approved Instructions for Use and Failed to File FDA-Required Adverse Event Reports of Serious Infections Pentax Medical Company will pay $43 million to resolve criminal charges based on the company’s shipment of four types of endoscopes for 18 months without FDA-cleared instructions for…
Nurse Given Prison Sentence for Drug Theft and Tampering
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeNorthern District of Iowa FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, January 28, 2020 Stole Pain and Other Medications from at Least Fourteen Patients A nurse who tampered with drugs given to patients and stole pain medications from patients in her care was sentenced today to 4 years in federal prison. Katie Louise Boll, age 31,…
Manchester Man Pleads Guilty to Threatening Federal Agent
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeDistrict of Maine FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMonday, March 2, 2020 Bangor, Maine: A Manchester, Maine man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Bangor to threatening a federal agent, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced. Cody Lyon, 24, pleaded guilty to three counts of transmitting threatening interstate communications. According to court records, in…
HOPE Clinic Physician Pleads Guilty
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeSouthern District of West Virginia FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMonday, January 27, 2020 BECKLEY, W.Va. – A North Carolina physician pled guilty to a drug crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Roswell Tempest Lowry, M.D., 85, pled guilty to interstate travel in aid of a racketeering enterprise. “Like I’ve said before, medical professionals…
Founder and Former Chairman of the Board of Insys Therapeutics Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeDistrict of Massachusetts FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, January 23, 2020 Defendant sentenced for his role in bribing practitioners to prescribe highly addictive pain medication, often when medically unnecessary BOSTON – The founder of Insys Therapeutics, John Kapoor, was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for orchestrating a scheme to bribe practitioners…
U.K. National Charged with Shipping Mislabeled and Unapproved ‘Treatments’ for Patients Suffering from COVID-19
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeCentral District of California FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, April1, 2020 LOS ANGELES – A British man was named today in a federal criminal complaint that charges him with smuggling into the United States mislabeled drugs purported to be a treatment for those suffering from COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Frank…