Category: health
Nationwide Lawsuit Against AmerisourceBergen Corp. and Subsidiaries: Controlled Substances Act Violations
In a civil complaint filed today, the Department of Justice alleges that AmerisourceBergen Corporation and two of its subsidiaries, AmerisourceBergen Drug Corporation and Integrated Commercialization Solutions, LLC (together “AmerisourceBergen”), collectively one of the country’s largest wholesale pharmaceutical distributors, violated federal law in connection with the distribution of controlled substances to pharmacies and other customers across the country, contributing to the prescription opioid epidemic. The complaint alleges that this unlawful conduct resulted in at least hundreds of thousands of violations…
Medical Device Company Zyno Medical LLC Agrees To Pay Nearly $500,000 To Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Relating to Defective Medical Device
Zyno Medical LLC (Zyno), a medical device manufacturer headquartered in Massachusetts, has agreed to pay $493,140 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by causing the submission of claims to Medicare in connection with the intravenous (IV) administration of medication using devices Zyno knew were materially defective. The settlement announced today resolves allegations that Zyno knowingly distributed defective IV administration sets that were used to deliver controlled dosages of chemotherapy and other medications to Medicare beneficiaries. As…
CytoDyn Inc: Two Biotech CEOs Charged in Securities Fraud Schemes #leronlimab
A federal grand jury in the District of Maryland returned an indictment that was unsealed today charging two men for their roles in schemes to defraud investors in CytoDyn Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company (OTCQB: CYDY) based in Vancouver, Washington. According to court documents, Nader Pourhassan, 59, of Lake Oswego, Oregon, and Kazem Kazempour, 69, of Potomac, Maryland, allegedly engaged in a conspiracy to defraud investors through false and misleading representations and material omissions relating to CytoDyn’s development of…
BioTelemetry Inc and subsidiary CardioNet LLC to Pay More than $44.8 Million for False Claims
BioTelemetry Inc. and its subsidiary CardioNet LLC, both headquartered in Pennsylvania (collectively “BioTelemetry”), have agreed to pay $44,875,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting claims to Medicare, TRICARE, the Veterans Health Administration, and the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program for heart monitoring tests that were performed, in part, outside the United States, and in many cases by technicians who were not qualified to perform such tests. The United States alleged that CardioNet improperly…
Theranos President Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani Sentenced to More Than 12 Years for Fraud, Jeopardized Patient Health and Bilked Investors
Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani was sentenced today to 155 months (12 years, 11 months) in federal prison for fraud that risked patient health by misrepresenting the accuracy of Theranos blood analysis technology and that defrauded Theranos investors of millions of dollars, announced United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Robert K. Tripp, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Assistant Commissioner for Criminal Investigations Catherine A. Hermsen, and U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) San Francisco Division…
Ocenture LLC and Carelumina LLC Settle Allegations of Kickbacks, Genetic Testing Fraud Scheme
Ocenture LLC, a privately held company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, and its subsidiary, Carelumina LLC (collectively, “Ocenture”), have agreed to pay $3 million to resolve allegations that they caused the submission of false claims to Medicare by paying and receiving kickbacks in connection with genetic testing samples. The United States alleged that Ocenture participated in a genetic testing fraud scheme with other marketers and clinical laboratories. As part of the alleged scheme, Ocenture solicited genetic testing samples from Medicare beneficiaries…
Modern Therapy LLC Sentenced to $2.5 Million Fine for Unlawful Distribution of Anabolic Steroids
FRANFORT, Ky. — A Florida company, Modern Therapy, LLC, was sentenced on Friday to pay a $2.5 million fine by U.S. District Judge Gregory VanTatenhove for the unlawful distribution of anabolic steroids. Modern Therapy operated out of Hallandale Beach, Florida. According to its plea agreement, it marketed anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, and related products to customers over the Internet. Anabolic steroids are a Schedule III controlled substance and may only be issued pursuant to a valid prescription for a…
Former VP and GM of New England Compounding Center Sentenced to Prison for Fraud
BOSTON – A former co-owner of the now-defunct New England Compounding Center (NECC) was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with conspiring to defraud the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Gregory Conigliaro, 57, of Southborough, Mass. was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns to one year in prison and one year of supervised release. In December 2018, Conigliaro was convicted following a 41-day jury trial of one count of conspiracy to defraud the United…
Myanmar: Secretive military courts sentence scores of people to death
“The military continues to hold proceedings in secretive courts in violation of basic principles of fair trial and contrary to core judicial guarantees of independence and impartiality”, Volker Türk added, calling for the suspension of all executions and a return to a moratorium on death penalty. Dealing out death On Wednesday, a military court sentenced at least seven university students to death. “Military courts have consistently failed to uphold any degree of transparency contrary to the most basic due process…
WHO, YouTube and funding: Will Dr. Campbell switch to Rumble to avoid censorship?
Dr. John Campbell, long-time WHO employee and Ph.D. health expert, struggles to explain current funding biases in relation to the Gates Foundation and censorship on Google’s Youtube platform, as well as the larger global issue of silencing sound medical advice in response to financial interests and government pressure.
Not being covered in media: Official UK data on adverse reactions to vaccination and “excess deaths”
UK week ending 5 August 2022 Video and notes by Dr. John Campbell 799 deaths involving COVID-19 registered (6.5%) – Down from 923 in the previous week (7.3%) – (First decrease following six weeks of increases) – Lag of three weeks between infection and dying as a result of infection – Total number of deaths registered in the UK, W/E 5 August 2022: 12,126 – 13.9% above the five-year average: (1,480 excess deaths) (Source: ons.gov.uk) Up to January 2022: 15 deaths…
DOJ Opens Probe Into Falsified Data Allegations Against Cassava
Jul 27, 2022. The United States Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the Austin, Texas-based Cassava Sciences regarding allegations that the company falsified data to support Simufilam, its drug candidate for Alzheimer’s disease. The probe could swing both ways, leading to criminal charges or end with no resulting lawsuit. The probe, revealed in an exclusive report by Reuters, will be led by investigators experienced in determining whether or not entities have defrauded consumers, investors or government agencies, according…
Pfizer and BioNTech Push Hard on Omicron-Specific Vaccine While Fending Off Lawsuits
Jul 27, 2022. Pfizer and BioNTech are fending off lawsuits over their mRNA vaccine technology. Pfizer and BioNTech Launch Phase II Trial of Enhanced COVID Vaccine Pfizer and BioNTech initiated a Phase II trial of an enhanced COVID-19 vaccine. This next-generation bivalent vaccine candidate, BNT162b5, is made up of RNAs encoding enhanced prefusion spike proteins for both the wild-type Wuhan strain and an Omicron variant. The spike protein has been modified with the goal of increasing the immune response to…
Judicial Watch: NIH Records Reveal FBI Inquiry of Wuhan Grant
Jul 17, 2022. Records Show Fauci Agency ‘Gain-of-Function’ Concerns about Wuhan Lab Going Back to 2016 (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch announced today that it received 1651 pages of records from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) revealing an FBI “inquiry” into the NIH’s controversial bat coronavirus grant tied to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The records also show National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) officials were concerned about “gain-of-function” research in China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2016….
NIH, Wuhan were working on Monkeypox
2022-06-01 Dr. Campbell’s Notes Wuhan Institute of Virology published on monkeypox research 3 months ago NIH also have been researching monkeypox treatment: NIH SOURCE Total funding, $9,824,009 The funding supports a clinical trial to identify effective treatments for monkeypox A re-emerging pathogen A disease of epidemic potential Causes significant morbidity and can result in death Human cases have been increasing in sub-Saharan Africa since 2000 Sporadic outbreaks outside of Africa have occurred Similarity between MPXV and the variola virus Coupled…
Greece Goes After Novartis for Alleged Bribery and Kickbacks
May 18, 2022. Greece’s Health Minister Thanos Plevris announced plans to sue Novartis over what he alleges are illegal practices. In addition to demanding compensation, the country is implementing a three-point plan. The plan includes a mandate to set up a trading committee, appointing a U.S. law firm to defend the rights of Greece, and “an order for bringing an action before the Greek Justice for claiming the compensation for the insult of the Greek state with a reservation for…