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, 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 Wednesday, 8th April 2009 by dcooley
The final rule on the “Implementation of the Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act” (aka Ryan Haight Act) was published in the Federal Register Monday by the DEA and DOJ. It can be found here. It draws some interesting conclusions with respect to internet pharmacy law, and the new regulations only serve to increase already existing legal ambiguity.
Tags: Criminal Appeals, Criminal Defense, Internet Pharmacy Law, Ryan Haight Act
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Posted on Monday, 6th April 2009 by dcooley
On Saturday, I noted that the Government moved to dismiss the federal indictment against the remaining internet pharmacy defendants in U.S. v. Hernandez (Dr. Hannibal Edwards, Lawrence Pinkoff, Serge Francois, pharmacy Concept RX, Frank Hernandez and Lifeline Pharmacy, Inc.). Today, Judge Zloch of the Southern District of Florida granted the Government’s Motion to Dismiss. Additionally, as I [...]
Tags: Motion to Dismiss, Trial, U.S. v. Hernandez
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Posted on Saturday, 4th April 2009 by dcooley
The JIVE internet pharmacy trial commenced last Monday in Orlando, FL. Of the original defendants, only Jude LaCour, Christopher Tobin, Akhil Baranwal, James Pickens and Geunnet Chebssi remain. Jude LaCour is representing himself. Jeffrey Lacour, Hudsen Smith, Alexis Roman Torres, Andrew Desonia, Margaret McIntosh and Abel Lau have all pled guilty.
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