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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, [...]

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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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Posted on Friday, 6th February 2009 by dcooley

Jared Wheat, CEO of Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, and co-defendant Sergio Oliveira, a sales associate, were sentenced to 50 months and 20 months, respectively, after pleading guilty to an internet pharmacy conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud, and to introduce and deliver new and adulterated prescription drugs into interstate commerce under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.  Wheat [...]

Tags: Adulteration, Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act, Hi-Tech, Internet Pharmacy Law, Non-Controlled Substances, Plea, Sentence, Website Owners
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Posted on Monday, 2nd February 2009 by dcooley

Internet pharmacy owners Steven Abiodun Sodipo and Onigbo Nwaehiri were both sentenced to five years imprisonment by a Maryland District Court Judge earlier last month for their role in selling 9,936,075 hydrocodone (Vicodin) prescription pills online.  Both were pharmacists and owners of NewCare Pharmacy in Baltimore, Maryland.  Additionally, both were ordered to pay $11,870,119.39.  To satisfy [...]

Tags: Controlled Substances, Internet Pharmacy Law, Pharmacies, Sentence, Trial
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Posted on Friday, 30th January 2009 by dcooley

The St. Petersberg Times reports that Florida doctor Juan Ibanez was sentenced to four years yesterday for his association with an internet pharmacy organization (foxfamilymeds.com, medsforpain.com, prescriptiondrugplanet.com, sunshinefamilymeds.com and online-scripts.com) which distributed “more than 50 million hydrocodone pills” nationwide.  Between 2003-2007, the online pharmacy grossed more than $85 million from its sales of Vicodin.  Doctors did not perform face [...]

Tags: Doctors, Internet Pharmacy Law, Plea, Sentence
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