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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Posted on Tuesday, 14th April 2009 by dcooley
Yesterday was the effective date for a majority of the provisions in the Ryan Haight Act (Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act). It is now part of the Controlled Substances Act. Also effective yesterday was the interim Ryan Haight Act rule promulgated by the DEA, which I have argued does nothing but make internet [...]
Tags: Internet Pharmacy Law, Ryan Haight Act
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Posted on Saturday, 11th April 2009 by dcooley
The AffPower network Internet pharmacy trial began this week in the Southern District of California for the remaining AffPower defendants Dolores Lovin, Mary Aronson, Richard Edward Koch, Philip James Bidwell, Jeffrey A. Light, Tracy ONeal Tyler and Peter P. Bragansa. This case is unique in that the Government seeks to prosecute Internet pharmacy affiliates as well as [...]
Tags: Affiliates, AffPower, Controlled Substances, Internet Pharmacy Law, JIVE, Non-Controlled Substances, Ryan Haight Act, Trial
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