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Posted on Thursday, 30th April 2009 by dcooley

According to the Orlando Sentential and the Daytona Beach News-Journal, JIVE internet pharmacy owner Jude Lacour was found guilty on all counts today, including conspiracy, distribution of a controlled substance and money laundering.  Lacour represented himself at trial.  Christopher Tobin was also found guilty on all counts charged.  The other defendants (Akhil Baranwal, James Pickens and [...]

Tags: conviction, Internet Pharmacy Law, JIVE, Trial
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Posted on Wednesday, 29th April 2009 by dcooley

The jury began deliberating in the JIVE online pharmacy network trial yesterday at 3p.m.
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Tags: Internet Pharmacy Law, JIVE, Trial
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Posted on Monday, 27th April 2009 by dcooley

Jose Riopedre and Susana Mendez both pled guilty in the District Court for the District of Maryland today to conspiring to distribute more than two million doses of Phentermine via an internet pharmacy.  Both agreed to forfeit $1,500,000.  Sentencing is scheduled for July 15, 2009.
The indictment alleged that between March 2005 and December 2006, the two, [...]

Tags: Internet Pharmacy Law, Plea
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Posted on Thursday, 23rd April 2009 by dcooley

Fritz Brunz pled guilty today in the Northern District of California to owning and operating an Internet pharmacy (healthylifemeds.com) which introduced misbranded drugs (Ritalin, Halcion and Xanax) into interstate commerce.  Brunz will be sentenced on July 29, 2009.
As I have discussed before, misbranding is essentially a catch all offense under the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act, which includes mislabeling, [...]

Tags: Controlled Substances Act, Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act, Internet Pharmacy Law, Non-Controlled Substances, Plea
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Posted on Tuesday, 21st April 2009 by dcooley

According to the Seattle Times, the home of Dr. Peter Pfeiffer, of Bellingham, Washington, was raided by DEA agents last Friday as a result of his alleged ties to an Internet pharmacy.  The search warrant alleged, among other things, that Pfeiffer was:

writing “a very large number of prescriptions” for hydrocodone between November and February;
writing prescriptions [...]

Tags: Doctors, Internet Pharmacy Law, Investigation, Ryan Haight Act
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Posted on Sunday, 19th April 2009 by dcooley

Colorado doctor Christian Hageseth was sentenced to nine months in prison by a California judge following his plea of no contest to practicing medicine without a license in California.  Hageseth was prosecuted as a result of allegedly prescribing Prozac via an Internet pharmacy to Stanford University student John McKay who later committed suicide.  As a reminder, [...]

Tags: Doctors, Hageseth, Internet Pharmacy Law, Sentence, State Law
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