Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations   Two Southland Retailers Also Charged with Illegally Selling Decorative Contact Lenses LOS ANGELES – Geo Medical Co., Ltd., a contact lens manufacturer based in the Republic of Korea that claims to be the “leading brand of circle lenses,” has been charged in federal court with…

      Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations   LEXINGTON, Ky. – A Central Kentucky pharmacist, who owned and operated Hometown Pharmacy of Georgetown, has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison, followed by two years of home incarceration as a term of his supervised release, for Conspiracy to Distribute Oxycodone and Money Laundering….

      Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations   LAKE CHARLES, La. – Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a federal jury found a Lake Charles veterinarian and a Nebraska pharmacy guilty of conspiring to sell an unapproved opioid drug 40 times more powerful than morphine for the purpose of improving the performance…

      Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations   BUFFALO, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Shaheen Hassanali, 45, pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return, and her husband, Riyaz Hassanali, 57, both of Williamsville, NY, pleaded guilty to receiving and delivering misbranded drugs. The pleas took place…

      Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations   LYON, France – In the largest action of its kind, INTERPOL’s Operation Pangea X targeting the illicit online sale of medicines and medical devices saw some 400 arrests worldwide and the seizure of more than USD 51 million worth of potentially dangerous medicines. Involving 197…

      Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations   LOS ANGELES – A Laguna Hills man pleaded guilty today to charges of selling misbranded veterinary medications without a prescription, some of which were not approved for use in the United States.   Sean Gerson, 49, the owner Vaccination Services, Inc. in Lake Forest, pleaded guilty…

      Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations   Pharmaceutical Wholesaler Admits to Illegally Distributing Millions of Misbranded Oncology Drug Products and Failing to Register with the Food and Drug Administration Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group (ABSG), a wholly-owned subsidiary of AmerisourceBergen Corporation (NYSE: ABC), one…

      Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations   The former compliance director of an Indiana compounding pharmacy pleaded guilty to introducing adulterated drugs into interstate commerce and conspiracy to defraud the United States by obstructing the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) lawful functions, the Department of Justice announced today.   Caprice R. Bearden, 63,…

      Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations   Abingdon, VIRGINIA – A registered nurse, who worked at a medical facility in Roanoke, Va., was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon for tampering with a consumer product, namely fentanyl, Acting United States Attorney Rick…

  Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations      Defendants Sold Millions of Bottles of Counterfeit 5-Hour ENERGY Drink Manufactured in Unsanitary Conditions   SAN JOSE –  A federal jury convicted Joseph Shayota and Adriana Shayota late yesterday of conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods and conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and to…