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March 24, 2026: Physician sentenced for administering expired injectables in long-running fraud scheme
A federal judge in Alaska sentenced rheumatologist Dr. Claribel Tan to six-and-a-half years in prison for administering substandard drugs to patients while fraudulently billing insurers
[...]Using pharmacy-to-pharmacy marketplaces? Read this Suspicious Sales Surveillance Report
Online pharmacy-to-pharmacy marketplaces help with inventory management, but they also require vigilance because they carry a higher risk of being exploited by criminals selling black market medicines.
[...]Counterfeit drug crimes typically earn light sentences. How did Safe Chain’s co-owners, the Boyd brothers, end up with 18 and 20 years?
Wire fraud charges drove much higher penalties than the shipping of unsafe medicine into the supply chain, and the Boyds’ sentences were based on the government proving high-dollar, deliberate fraud.
[...]March 17, 2026: Safe Chain Solutions executives jailed for selling secondhand HIV meds
A federal judge sentenced brothers Charles and Patrick Boyd to a combined 38 years in prison for running a nationwide scheme that sold counterfeit and diverted HIV medications to U.S. pharmacies.
[...]March Drug Importation Madness
For a pretty dead policy idea, bulk drug importation has had a lot of news lately. Get the update!
[...]Safe Chain owners Charles and Patrick Boyd sentenced for nationwide black market HIV drug scheme
federal judge in Florida sentenced Charles and Patrick Boyd to a cumulative 38 years in prison. The brothers owned Safe Chain Solutions, a Cambridge, Maryland-based drug distributor at the center of a diversion ring that endangered the health of American patients by selling U.S. pharmacies over 85,00 counterfeit bottles of secondhand HIV medicine worth more than $250 million.
[...]March 10, 2026: Fake cancer drug distributor sentenced to almost four years in federal prison
Sanjay Kumar got 43 months for selling counterfeit Keytruda. PSM wrote federal agencies about a Super Bowl ad promoting diagnostic tests and compounded medicines with false claims.
[...]PSM applauds Indiana legislature for compounding and med spa reform
On February 26, 2026, PSM was glad to see the Indiana legislature pass SB 282, a bill that strengthens compounding and medical spa regulation to keep Indiana patients safer.
[...]March 2, 2026: Europol’s 2025 Operation Shield yielded $38m in counterfeit and illegal medicines; domestic and international news sheds light on GLP-1 crimes
As Europol seized a huge amounts of counterfeit pharmaceuticals abroad, a Kentucky legislator proposed a bill to regulate med spas after a constituent was seriously injured and adverse events related to weight loss drugs see surges across the US.
[...]February 23, 2026: State investigates whistleblower allegations of unsafe GLP-1 drug handling at Mochi Health-affiliated pharmacy.
Washington State investigators found serious violations at a Mochi Health-affiliated compounding pharmacy producing GLP-1s, and a med spa bill in Indiana hears public testimony about a med spa bill.
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