Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeDistrict of Vermont  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, June 11, 2024 Burlington, Vermont – The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont stated that on June 10, 2024, Law Zabriskie, 66, of Bridgewater, Vermont, was sentenced by United States District Judge William K. Sessions III to a time-served sentence to be…

Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeSouthern District of Mississippi FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, May 30, 2024 Gulfport, MS – A Mississippi corporation operating as Mary Mahoney’s Old French House restaurant in Biloxi, Mississippi, pled guilty today to conspiracy to misbrand seafood and wire fraud. A co-owner/manager of the restaurant also pled guilty to misbranding of seafood. According…

Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeDistrict of South Dakota FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, May 28, 2024 SIOUX FALLS – United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier has sentenced a Tea, South Dakota, woman convicted of Obtaining a Controlled Substance by Misrepresentation, Fraud, Forgery, Deception, and Subterfuge. The sentencing took…

Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeDistrict of Massachusetts FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, May 21, 2024 BOSTON – Magellan Diagnostics, Inc., a medical device company headquartered in Billerica, Mass., has agreed to resolve criminal charges relating to its concealment of a device malfunction that produced inaccurately low lead test results for potentially tens of thousands of children and other…

Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeWestern District of Virginia FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMonday, May 20, 2024   MIAMI – On May 10, two additional South Florida men pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud for their role in a diversion scheme involving the distribution of adulterated and misbranded diabetic test strips. The scheme involved the acquisition…

Department of JusticeOffice of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMonday, May 20, 2024 Rui-Siang Lin Used the Identity of “Pharoah” to Operate Incognito Market, Which Sold More Than $100M of Illegal Narcotics to Customers Around the World Rui-Siang Lin, also known as Ruisiang Lin, 林睿庠, Pharoah, and faro, 23, of Taiwan, was arrested today in connection with…

Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeWestern District of Virginia FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, May 9, 2024 Ohio-based Company Will Pay More Than $23 Million in Fines and Forfeiture ABINGDON, Va. – Covetrus North America LLC, a company based in Dublin, Ohio, which sells veterinary products to customers across the United States, was sentenced yesterday to one-year of probation…

Department of JusticeUS Attorney’s OfficeOffice of Public Affairs For Immediate ReleaseFriday, May 3, 2024 Endo Health Solutions Inc. (EHSI) was ordered today to pay $1.086 billion in criminal fines and an additional $450 million in criminal forfeiture — the second-largest set of criminal financial penalties ever levied against a pharmaceutical company —for violations of the…

Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeSouthern District of New York FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, May 1, 2024 Isis Navarro Reyes Allegedly Sold Misbranded Adulterated Weight Loss Drugs to Customers Without a License to Administer Such Drugs Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Fernando P. McMillan, the Special Agent in…

Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeSouthern District of Mississippi For Immediate ReleaseThursday, May 2, 2024 Gulfport, Mississippi – A Biloxi City Councilman pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a Schedule I controlled substance. Robert Leon Deming, III, 47, pled guilty in U.S. District Court in Gulfport.   According to court documents and…