On March 31, U.S. District Judge James Jones denied Indivior`s request to dismiss a 28-count indictment alleging the company was involved in health care fraud, referral fraud, mail fraud and conspiracy to commit the same. The charges in the indictment stem from Individual`s marketing of Suboxone, an opioid drug used to treat addiction. The indictment alleges that Indivior employees encouraged the abuse of Suboxone through relationships with doctors involved in illegitimate prescriptions and made fraudulent claims about the safety and diversion of the drug. Indivior, in a motion to dismiss the indictment, claimed that the company`s alleged encouragement to prescribe illegally did not constitute fraud. In dismissing Indivior`s application, the court found that the government had duly asserted that the conduct contained in the indictment and whether it was fraud should be decided by a jury. The trial in this case, originally scheduled for May, continued until September 2020 due to the ongoing public health emergency. On August 3, 2015, the District Court issued a permanent injunction against Henh Wong Fresh Produce, a sole proprietorship, its owner David C. Ly and its employees Kin S. Ly and Thahn “Danny” C. Ly, to prevent them from violating the Food, Drugs and Cosmetics Act (FDCA) by causing food adulteration. while they are offered for sale in interstate trade after shipment.
Henh Wong Fresh Produce was a mung bean and soy food manufacturer in Sacramento, California, that sold products such as tofu, bean cake, and soy beverages to various distributors after receiving raw materials from Kentucky and Minnesota. The Consumer Forum issued an order in favor of Rajesh Rajan and ordered the company to pay a total of ₹4,008 (₹4,000 for compensation and ₹8 for the Pepsi it bought). In December 2014, the FDA inspected Henry`s Farm`s production facilities and found many unsanitary conditions, including: standing water in the germ production room; deposits germinate at various locations along the packaging line and soil; and dead insects on packaging material and a seed store. The FDA also discovered the presence of L. mono in the facility, including samples of food contact surfaces and a sample of the finished sprouted product collected in May 2012. L. Mono are foodborne bacteria that can cause serious illness or even death in consumers. Podesta and Polo admitted that they managed and supervised the call centers for the program. The court sentenced Gutierrez to 51 months in prison and Podesta and Polo to 46 months in prison. Another co-conspirator, Omar Portocarrero Caceres, had already been sentenced to 46 months in prison. On June 29, Ronald Rodis pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail and bank transfer fraud for his role in Rodis Law Group, a fake law firm that purported to offer troubled homeowners help in obtaining loan changes.
Three defendants, including Rodis, opened Rodis Law Group and campaigned nationwide for support with the loan change. Rodis` co-defendants recruited and trained telemarketing staff to answer consumer calls where sales reps regularly lied to homeowners about the company`s success rates, the ability to get credit changes, and sometimes ordered homeowners to stop making mortgage payments. After receiving the payment, the company`s employees made little effort to get any changes. Many homeowners have lost their homes due to foreclosure after hiring the companies. Ronald Rodis was paid to use his lawyer`s license to give legitimacy to the operation. During the program, Rodis Law Group and its successor, America`s Law Group, received more than $9,000,000 from more than 1,800 owners. If you believe you are a victim in this case and would like to talk to someone about the case, please call Special Agent Chad Medaris, FDA Bureau of Criminal Investigations, at 214-887-4174. Although the consumer courts did not allow his case, the Supreme Court upheld his appeal and ruled in his favour. It was decided that, for technical reasons, insurance companies cannot avoid paying claimants. Especially if the applicant has valid reasons to do so. On March 15, 2021, U.S. District Judge James P.
Jones sentenced Brett Becker to six months of house arrest for bringing new, unapproved drugs into the interstate trade in violation of the Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics Act. The court also ordered Becker, owner of sports supplement company Accelerated Genetix, LLC., to waive $3.5 million. When Becker pleaded guilty last year, he admitted that from january 2016 to about March 2019, he illegally distributed selective androgen receptor (“MRSA”) modulators and other substances that the FDA did not approve, including ostarine and ligandrol, as part of purported dietary supplements. MRSAs are synthetic chemicals designed to mimic the effects of testosterone and other anabolic steroids. The FDA has long warned against the use of MRSA, including the discovery in a 2017 public warning letter that MRSA has been linked to life-threatening reactions, including liver toxicity and may increase the risk of heart attack and stroke. On July 5, 2017, the District Court issued a consent order for a permanent injunction against Medistat RX, LLC, a dispensing pharmacy, and three individual defendants: Mark D. Acker, who served as Chief Executive Officer, Timothy L. Fickling, who served as Production Manager, and V.
Elaine Waller, who has been a responsible pharmacist and quality manager. In a complaint filed in May, the United States claimed that inspections at Medistat revealed numerous unsanitary conditions, including significant microbial contamination in aseptic treatment areas and the lack of use of sterile wipes to clean critical surfaces at the pharmacy. In a complaint against HDFC for debiting money without the licensee`s authorization, the National Commission concluded that the payment was made in accordance with the order of a legal authority and only after timely notification from the complainant. The Commission stated that it was necessary to protect against the possibility of frivolous complaints, as there are no legal costs. For this reason, the Commission imposed a fine of twenty-five thousand persons on the complainant under section 26 of the Act, finding that the complaint was not serious and had been filed without sufficient justification. On November 12, 2019, a grand jury indicted six Las Vegas residents in connection with a fraudulent direct mail program that allegedly deceived hundreds of thousands of consumers into paying more than $10 million in fees for alleged cash prizes. According to the indictment, the defendants` mailings led the victims, many of whom were elderly and vulnerable, to believe that they could claim large cash prizes for the costs. The indictment alleges that Mario Castro, Jose Salud Castro, Salvador Castro, Miguel Castro and Jose Luis Mendez all worked in printing and shipping companies that sent the fraudulent shipments and contributed to the resulting profits.
