Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations A medical device saleswoman was convicted yesterday on charges of conspiring to transport stolen medical devices in interstate commerce, money laundering and other charges. Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Robert J. West, Special Agent in Charge,…
September 6, 2018: Cattle Company and Veterinarian Indicted for False Health Certificates on Livestock
Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations LEXINGTON, Ky. – A veterinarian and a cattle company were indicted today for using false interstate certificates of veterinary inspection, to ship tens of thousands of cattle interstate, in violation of federal law. Robert M. Duncan Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of…
September 9, 2016: Owner of Major Online Colored Contact Lens Business Pleads Guilty in Largest-Ever Investigation of Counterfeit and Misbranded Contact Lenses in the United States
Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations The owner and operator of Candy Color Lenses, a major online retailer of colored contact lenses in the United States, pleaded guilty yesterday to running an international operation importing counterfeit and misbranded contact lenses from suppliers in Asia and then selling them over the internet…
September, 22, 2016 Hoover Man Charged for Marketing Misbranded Male Enhancement Drugs from China
Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations Hoover Man Charged for Marketing Misbranded Male Enhancement Drugs from China BIRMINGHAM – Federal prosecutors today charged a Hoover man with receiving and reselling misbranded male enhancement drugs from China that could cause serious side effects in men taking medications containing nitrates, announced U.S….
September 29, 2017: Randallstown Woman Sentenced To 2 Years In Prison For Injecting Non-Medical Grade Silicone Into The Bodies Of Victim Customers
Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations Baltimore, Maryland – United States District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Kendra Westmoreland, age 55, of Randallstown, Maryland, to two years in prison, followed by one year of supervised release for receiving and delivering an adulterated or misbranded device, in connection with her receipt and use of…
September 29, 2016: New York Man Pleads Guilty To Conspiring To Illegally Manufacture Designer Steroids
Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations ABINGDON, VIRGINIA – A Skaneateles, New York, man who was involved in the manufacture of illegal pro-hormones/designer steroids, pled guilty today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon. James William Mills, age 50, entered a guilty plea to…
September 5, 2017: New Hampshire Residents Plead Guilty to Conspiracy Involving Misbranded Drugs
Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations CONCORD, N.H. – Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that two residents of New Ipswich, New Hampshire have pleaded guilty to charges that they conspired to distribute misbranded drugs that they obtained from India. John Hayes, 53, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to introduce…
March 7, 2016: Tehachapi Doctor Sentenced to 6 Months in Prison for Defrauding Patients and Insurers by Implanting Unapproved IUDs
Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations FRESNO, Calif. — Dr. Paul S. Singh, 55, of Tehachapi, was sentenced today to six months in prison, to be followed by one year of home detention by United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii, for a scheme to defraud patients and their insurers by…
January 9, 2019: Owner of Seafood Company Sentenced to Prison for Blue Crab Scam
Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – The owner of a Newport News seafood business was sentenced to nearly four years in prison and fined $15,000 for conspiring to commit Lacy Act violations for blending foreign crab meat with Atlantic blue crab meat, then labeling the blended crab meat…
October 1, 2018: AmerisourceBergen Corp. to Pay $625 Million to Settle Civil Fraud Allegations Resulting from Its Repackaging and Sale of Adulterated Drugs and Unapproved New Drugs, Double Billing and Providing Kickbacks
Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations Settlement Resolves Federal and State False Claims Act Claims Arising from ABC’s Operation of a Sham Pharmacy that Illegally Repackaged Injectable Drugs Under Insanitary Conditions to Profit from Overfill AmerisourceBergen Corporation (ABC), one of the nation’s largest wholesale drug companies, and its subsidiaries AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group…