psm interchange 2014 panel 2: linda marks, criminal prosecutions: patient safety
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Linda I. Marks, Senior Litigation Counsel, Consumer Protection Branch, U.S. Department of Justice speaks around criminal prosecutions of drug counterfeiters and diverters in the US.TRANSCRIPT
CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS:PATIENT SAFETY
Partnership for Safe Medicines Interchange 2014September 18, 2014
Newseum, Washington, D.C.
Views offered in this presentation are my own views, and not necessarily views of the Department of Justice.
Moderator: Linda I. MarksSenior Litigation Counsel
Consumer Protection BranchU.S. Department of Justice
[email protected] offered in this presentation are my own views, and not necessarily views of the Department of Justice.
PANELISTS
• Lindsay Kelly, AUSA, Eastern District of Virginia
• Jaime Peña, AUSA, District of Colorado
UPDATE FROM LAST YEAR
FROM TURKEY TO MISSOURI (EDMO)
2012• MISSOURI ONCOLOGIST: DR. ABID NISAR• CALIFORNIA WHOLESALERS: JAMES
NEWCOMB/SANDRA BEHE (BDMI)• PACKAGE TO NISAR INCLUDED COLD CHAIN
“GOOEY MESS”
FROM TURKEY TO MISSOURI (EDMO)
• Blast Faxes to Target Doctors: lower costs (40-60% typical)
FROM TURKEY TO MISSOURI (EDMO)
2013• BRITISH WHOLESALER: RICHARD TAYLOR
(RICHARD’S PHARMA LTD.)• “UNFORTUNATE EXPERIENCE” & “IMMEDIATE BAD
REACTIONS” WHERE PATIENT “STARTED TO SHAKE”• ALTUZAN WAS A “HIGH RISK PLAY” WITH TURKISH
LABELING
FROM TURKEY TO MISSOURI (EDMO)
2014• TURKISH SUPPLIERS TO TAYLOR: OZKAN
SEMIZOGLU/SABAHADDIN AKMAN (OZAY PHARMACEUTICAL)
• BOTH DEFENDANTS PLED GUILTY AND AWAIT SENTENCING
FROM TURKEY TO MISSOURI (EDMO) . . . and beyond
Other physicians prosecuted:-- Isabella Martire (PG; motion to withdraw FDCA misd guilty plea pending)-- Joel Bernstein (PG; FDCA misd - unapproved Mabthera)-- Joel Bernstein, Inc. (PG; health care fraud; bought $3.4 million oncology drugs)
U.S. v. SANDHU (EDMO)
AND KSANDHU INDICTED 10/14 • OPERATED “ONLINEBOTOX.COM”• SOLD BOTOX & JUVEDERM• SISTERS KAMALDEEP AND NAVDEEP SANDHU INDICTED:
CONSPIRACY, SMUGGLING, FDCA ADULTERATED DRUGS, OBSTRUCTION
CHARGES INCLUDE CONSPIRACY, SMUGGLING, INTRODUCING ADULTERATED & MISBRANDED DRUGS, OBSTRUCTION
Botox – 30% Less than US Price
GALLANT PHARMA, EDVA
March 2013
• 10 INDIVIDUALS & 1 CORP. INDICTED FOR CONSPIRACY, SMUGGLING, INTRODUCING MISBRANDED DRUGS, WIRE FRAUD, UNLICENSED WHOLESALING
GALLANT PHARMA, EDVA
• CANCER & INJECTABLE COSMETIC DRUGS• UNLICENSED WHOLESALER• UNAPPROVED DRUGS IMPORTED FROM TURKEY,
INDIA, SWITZERLAND, UAE
REPACKAGERS IN U.K. & CANADA
GALLANT PHARMA, EDVA
• 13 DEFENDANTS: COMPANY OWNERS, SALES REPS, OPERATORS; SUPPLIERS; PHYSICIAN & OFFICE MANAGER
• 11 CONVICTIONS (& 2 FUGITIVES)!• REPACKAGERS IN U.K. & CANADA
GALLANT PHARMA, EDVA
ENNNNNNNNNNNNNEXT:
U.S. v. JAMES EDWARD QUINN, WORLD MEDICAL LTD, & ATLANTIC PHARMACEUTICALS AG-- UK REPACKAGERS/SHIPPERS-- CHEMO & COSMETIC DRUGS, IUDs
HOSPITAL DRUG DIVERSION: D. COLO.
• U.S. v. KRISTEN PARKER – SCRUB TECH; STOLEN FENTANYL SYRINGES; HEP-C
• U.S. v. ASHTON DAIGLE – RN; FENTANYL SYRINGES REPLACED WITH TAP WATER OR SALINE SOLUTION
• UNLICENSED WHOLESALER
MEDICAL DEVICES: SPECTRANETICS, D. COLO.
E WHOLESALER• U.S. v. GEORGE JOHN SCHULTE (CEO)• MEDICAL LASERS -- LEAD WIRES APPROVED FOR SPECIFIC
TYPES OF OCCLUSIONS• UNAPPROVED GUIDEWIRES, CATHETER BALLOONS,
LASERS, & STENTS USED IN SURGERIES
REPACKAGERS IN U.K. & CANADA
MEDICAL DEVICES: SPECTRANETICS, D. COLO.
• UCENSED WHOLESALER• SCHULTE CONVICTED OF MAKING FALSE
STATEMENTS TO FDA• JANUARY 2014: 10TH CIR. UPHELD
CONVICTIONREPACKAGERS IN U.K. & CANADA
U.S. v. VAUGHAN CIPPERLY,D. COLO.
• PHYSICIAN PURCHASED CHEMO DRUGS FROM QUALITY SPECIALTY PRODUCTS (QSP), CANADA
• UNAPPROVED, FOREIGN-MADE• PLED GUILTY TO CONSPIRACY TO INTRODUCE
UNAPPROVED DRUGS; FORFEITED $500,000
• EPACKAGERS IN U.K. & CANADA)
Q & A TIME (then lunch . . . )