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Posted on Saturday, 16th May 2009 by dcooley

Kansas pharmacist, Rick Kloxin, pled no contest to 14 misdemeanor counts in the Hogan’s Pharmacy internet pharmacy case.  Kloxin was the lead pharmacist at Hogan’s Pharmacy and plans to cooperate in the prosecution of Jolane and Mark Poindexter, the owners of Hogan’s.  In March, Kloxin lost his license and was fined $62,000.  A discussion of the [...]

Tags: Administrative Hearing, Hogan's Pharmacy, Internet Pharmacy Law, Kansas, Pharmacies, Plea, Ryan Haight Act, State Law
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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 Sunday, 29th March 2009 by dcooley

In December 2008, I reported on an internet pharmacy case, in which Colorado doctor Christian Hageseth was being prosecuted for “practicing medicine without a license in California.”  The charge stemmed from a 2005 prescription (Prozac)  issued to  Stanford student John McKay via USAnewRx.com, an online pharmacy.  McKay later committed suicide.  Last week Hageseth pled no contest and will [...]

Tags: Doctors, Hageseth, Internet Pharmacy Law, Plea, State Law
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Posted on Saturday, 28th March 2009 by dcooley

After pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, Steven Rosner was sentenced to 33 months by a Judge in the Northern District of Texas for his role in an internet pharmacy operation.  According to the original 201 count indictment, Rosner operated offerpills.com and clickonmed.net to facilitate the distribution of controlled substances, paid doctors Arceli [...]

Tags: Internet Pharmacy Law, Plea, Sentence, Steven Rosner, Website Owners
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Posted on Sunday, 15th February 2009 by dcooley

Kirtar Munshi was sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to pay a $6,000 fine and forfeit $219,000 in proceeds for his role in the sale of prescription drugs via an internet pharmacy.  Munshi pled guilty in July 2008 to conspiring to sell generic versions of Viagra, Cialis and Levitra, which were imported from India, over [...]

Tags: Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act, Misbranding, Non-Controlled Substances, Plea, Sentence
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