Health and Safety Code section 127677, enacted as part of
Senate Bill No. 17 (Stats. 2017, ch. 603, § 4), requires
pharmaceutical manufacturers to provide 60-days’ notice to
public and private registered purchasers, including state entities
and health insurers, before increasing the wholesale acquisition
cost of a drug (we will refer to the notice as a “price increase
notic

Health and Safety Code section 127677, enacted as part of
Senate Bill No. 17 (Stats. 2017, ch. 603, § 4), requires
pharmaceutical manufacturers to provide 60-days’ notice to
public and private registered purchasers, including state entities
and health insurers, before increasing the wholesale acquisition
cost of a drug (we will refer to the notice as a “price increase
notic

Philadelphia, PA - The United States of America charged Charles F. Kohlerman, IV with wire fraud and drug distribution.

Charles F. Kohlerman, IV, 50, of Media, PA, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and two years of supervised release by United States District Court Judge R. Barclay Surrick for one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and 14 counts of distributing and dispens

Brooklyn, NY - the United States of America charged Yuriy Barayev with health care fraud.

A federal jury in Brooklyn returned a guilty verdict last night against pharmacy owner Yuriy Barayev on one count of health care fraud and seven counts of money laundering for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare by billing for prescription medications that were not provided to patients. The ve

Coeur d'Alene, ID - The United States of America charged James Howard Gallaher with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and possession of a stolen firearm.

James Howard Gallaher, 34, of Lewiston, Idaho, was sentenced to prison in two separate cases for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and possession of a stolen firearm. U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill sentence

Los Angeles, CA - United States of America charged Aleksandr Suris and Maxim Sverdlov with health care fraud.

Two owners and operators of a Los Angeles pharmacy were both sentenced to 144 months in prison for their roles in a health care fraud scheme where Medicare and CIGNA were billed more than $11.8 million in fraudulent claims for prescription drugs.

Aleksandr Suris, 51, of S

Shreveport, LA - The United States of America charged Melissa W. Richardson with stealing drugs from mail-out prescriptions.

A licensed pharmacist, who was formerly employed with the Overton Brooks VA Medical Center (VAMC) in Shreveport, was found guilty today by a federal jury for stealing controlled substances from mail-out prescriptions.

Following a one-week trial and four hou

Raleigh, NC - The United States of America sued Robert L. Crocker and Farmville Discount Drug, Inc. seeking a permanent injunction ordering the Defendants to never again sell opioid drugs.

A consent judgment and permanent injunction was entered requiring a North Carolina pharmacy, FARMVILLE DISCOUNT DRUG, INC., as well as its owner and pharmacist-in-charge, ROBERT L. CROCKER, to pay $600,

Savannah, GA - The United States of America charged Demetrius Lamar Jackson, a/k/a "Meechy" with armed robbery and carjacking.

A convicted felon faces up to life in prison after pleading guilty to planning and executing a string of armed robberies and carjackings across Georgia and South Carolina in November 2018.

Demetrius Lamar Jackson, a/k/a “Meechy,” 30, of Savannah, pled gui

Casper, WY - The United States of America sued Albertsons, LLC d/b/a Osco Pharmacy in Caspar, Wyoming with numerous violations of the Controlled Substances Act

Osco pharmacy located at 1076 CY Avenue in Casper, Wyoming, which is owned and operated by Albertsons LLC. Albertsons agreed to pay one million dollars to resolve allegations that its Casper-based pharmacy had committed numerous v

San Diego, CA - Nicole Johnson sued CVS Pharmacy, Inc. on a personal injury negligence theory.

Boston, MA - The United States of America charged John Kapoor with conspiracy to bribe medical practitioners to prescribe pain medication manufactured by his company.

The founder of Insys Therapeutics, John Kapoor, was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for orchestrating a scheme to bribe practitioners to prescribe Subsys, a fentanyl-based pain medication, often when medically unn

Defendants and appellants Sony Music Entertainment
(Sony), John Branca, as co-executor of the estate of Michael J.
Jackson (the Estate), and MJJ Productions, Inc. (collectively
Appellants) appealed from an order of the superior court partially
denying their motion to strike under the anti-SLAPP statute.
(Code Civ. Proc., § 425.16.)
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