Archive for August 2018
Proposed Changes to WHOIS system privacy will help hide internet criminals, NABP director warns
In this August 1, 2018 editorial for Inside Sources, National Association of Boards of Pharmacy Director Carmen Catizone raises the alarm about ICANN’s proposed changes to the WHOIS system, a database that identifies the owners of web domains. These changes are meant to bring WHOIS in compliance with new European privacy laws but, he warns, they would also impede law enforcement and others’ efforts to “connect the dots and link up different websites run as part of large criminal enterprises” like drug counterfeiting rings.
[...]Pill Presses, Punches and Dies Found in Home of Man Indicted for Possession of Counterfeit Pills Made with Methamphetamine
The U.S. Department of Justice indicted Gino Carl von Eckstein after he was found in possession of counterfeit Adderall pills he manufactured using methamphetamine. A search of his car and several properties turned up fake pills, additional powder, and two pills presses needed to make the pills…
[...]Miami-Dade County Woman Indicted For Performing Illegal Silicone Injections
The U.S. Department of Justice indicted a woman in south Florida who was illegally injecting silicone into the bodies of her clients for body contouring purposes. The FDA has never approved silicone injects for this purpose due possible consequences including pulmonary embolism, infection, chest pain, and death…
[...]Breath Fresheners Substituted for Legitimate Medicine in $50M Diverted Pill Scheme
The former president of Cumberland Distribution, Inc. was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in a 32-month long scheme that saw over $50 million of diverted drugs shipped to pharmacies around the country, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Indicted in January 2013 along with co-conspirators Charles Jeffrey Edwards and…
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