Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeOffice of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, March 5, 2024 A former raw milk cheese manufacturer and the company he owned and managed pleaded guilty today to charges related to cheese that was linked to a 2016-2017 outbreak of listeriosis, the disease caused by the pathogen Listeria monocytogenes.  Johannes Vulto and his…

Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeEastern District of Virginia FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, March 5, 2024 ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Three members of a Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, family pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute fentanyl. According to court documents, Hadja Franklin, 55, Nabyunissa Bangoura (“Nabyunissa”), 34, Tanziludin Bangurah (“Tanziludin”), 52, manufactured counterfeit oxycodone and Xanax in a laboratory in…

Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeDistrict of New Hampshire FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, February 29, 2024 CONCORD – A Maine man was indicted in connection with tampering with consumer products, First Assistant United States Attorney Jay McCormack announces. Marc Flore, 43, was indicted on one count of tampering with consumer products. Flore will appear in federal court in…

Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeOffice of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, February 29, 2024  United States Also Reaches Settlement with Endo International in Bankruptcy Case Endo Health Solutions Inc. (EHSI), which is in bankruptcy, has agreed to resolve criminal and civil investigations related to the company’s sales and marketing of the opioid drug Opana ER…

Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeSouthern District of Florida FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, February 28, 2024 MIAMI – On Feb. 23, Patrick Smith, 71, of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, the former CEO and President of Patient Care America (PCA), a compounding pharmacy located in Broward County, was sentenced to 6 months in prison for lying to federal agents…

Department of JusticeUnited States Attorney’s OfficeEastern District of Arkansas FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMonday, February 26, 2024 Largest Ever Monetary Criminal Penalty in Food Safety Matter LITTLE ROCK – Family Dollar Stores LLC pleaded guilty today to holding food, drugs, medical devices, and cosmetics under insanitary conditions, related to a rodent infestation at the company’s West Memphis,…

Department of JusticeUnited States Attorney’s OfficeDistrict of Massachusetts FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, February 21, 2024 BOSTON – A former nurse pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to adulteration of fentanyl at a local hospital. Caroline Sheehan, 39, of Lowell, Mass. pleaded guilty to one count of adulteration of a prescription drug with intent to…

Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeEastern District of Pennsylvania FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFriday, February 16, 2024 Promising to restore the health of terminally ill dogs, defendant defrauded approximately 900 pet owners out of nearly $1 million PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Jonathan Nyce, 73, of Collegeville, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 97 months…

Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeWestern District of Virginia FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMonday, February 12, 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, pled guilty today to causing the introduction…

Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeDistrict of Massachusetts FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFebruary 15, 2024 Defendant sold “gas station heroin” as supplement to online customers in Massachusetts BOSTON – A California man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Springfield, Mass. for conspiring to smuggle tianeptine, a highly-addictive drug that claims to enhance mood and cognitive functioning, into…