Pharmacy Law
 
United States of America v. Patrick Tonge and Serge Francois

Atlanta, GA- Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with conspiracy, healthcare fraud, paying illegal healthcare kickbacks, introducing misbranded drugs into interstate commerce, money laundering, obstruction, and making false statements charges.



The defendants’ convictions, and thus these appeals, begin
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United States of America v. Matthew Hogan Peters

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with tax evasion and submitting false and health care fraud.

Matthew Hogan Peters, 38, was sentenced to three years in federal prison and three years’ supervised release. Peters was also ordered to pay more than $3,441,263 million in restitution to the IRS, in addition to back taxes Peters has already paid.

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United States of America v. Riad "Ray" Zahr, et al.

Boston, Massachusetts qui tam attorneys represented defendants accused for Riad "Ray" Zahr, a pharmacist in Dearborn, Michigan, along with two specialty pharmacies that Zahr formerly owned and operated, have agreed to pay the United States $1 million to resolve allegations that they submitted false claims for the drug Evzio. Evzio was an injectable form of naloxone hydrochloride indicated for use

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United States of America v. Peter Bolos

Greeneville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with mail fraud, conspiracy to commit health care fraud and introduction of a misbranded drug into interstate commerce.

Peter Bolos, age 44, and his co-conspirators, Andrew Assad, Michael Palso, Maikel Bolos, Larry Smith, Scott Roix, HealthRight LLC, Mihir Taneja, Arun Kapoor, and Sterling Knight Pharmaceuticals,

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United States of America v. Joseph A. Matney

Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with armed robbery of a pharmacy and theft of medical products and possession with intent to distribute Oxycodone and Alprazolam.

Joseph Matney, age 41 entered and robbed an Albuquerque pharmacy on Jan. 31, 2018. Matney and a juvenile accomplice held the employees at gunpoint and demanded opioid painkillers,

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State of Oklahoma v. Karra Deliere

Guthrie, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of a stolen vehicle in violation of 47 O.S. 4-103, which provides:

A. A person not entitled to the possession of a vehicle who receives, possesses, conceals, sells, or disposes of it, knowing the vehicle to be stolen or converted under circumstances constituting a crime shall, upon conviction, be guil

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United States of America, e4x rel Banigan & Templin v. PHARMERICA, INC.

Boston, MA - False Claims Act lawyer represented defendant charged with defending PharMerica, Inc of defrauded the government claim.



"The FCA prohibits the knowing submission of false or
fraudulent claims to the United States." United States ex rel.
Poteet v. Bahler Med., Inc., 619 F.3d 104, 107 (1st Cir. 2010)

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CVS Pharmacy, Inc. v. Lavin

Boston, MA - Employment lawyer represented defendant with Restrictive Covenant Agreement case.



CVS operates CVS Caremark, one of the country's largest
pharmacy benefit managers ("PBMs"). PBMs sell prescriptionmanagement services to entities providing prescription-drug
coverage to their members. These entities

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United States of America v. WeCare Pharmacy

Tampa, FL: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant accused of unlawful distribution of opioids.

Pursuant to an agreed consent judgment and permanent injunction filed in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, the court enjoined WeCare Pharmacy, its pharmacist owner Qingping Zhang, pharmacy technician Li Yang and a related corporate entity, L&Y Holdings LLC, from ever

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Anabella Nguyen and Tim Nguyen v. CVS Health Corporation and Garfield Beach CVS, LLC

Los Angeles, CA: Personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants pharmacy medical malpractice (negligence) theories claiming to have suffered more than $75,000 in injuries and/or damages as a direct result of an accident caused by Defendants' employees.

The claims made and defenses asserted are not available for this case.

This case was initially filed in th

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United States of America v. LAURA G. MARTINEZ

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with cocaine distribution and conspiracy charges .



We draw the facts from the undisputed portions of the
presentence-investigation report ("PSR"), the plea colloquy, and
the transcript of the sentencing hearing. See, e.g., United States
v. Rivera-Go

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United States of America v. KATHY S. CHIN United States of America v. MICHELLE L. THOMAS

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with alleged violations of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ("FDCA") charges.



The following facts are not in dispute. Chin and Thomas
were licensed pharmacists who worked in the packing area at NECC.
Chin worked there from about November 2010 un

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United States of America v. SHARON P. CARTER United States of America v. GREGORY CONIGLIARO

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with counts that pertained to their roles in connection with other aspects of NECC's operations charges. After patients across the country became
seriously ill or died in the fall of 2012 after having been injected with a contaminated medication traced to the New England Compounding Center ("NE

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United States of America v. Jerome Scott King

Hot Springs, AR: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with Robberies Involving Controlled Substances (Aiding and Abetting) and one count of Conspiracy and Possession with Intent to Distribute a Schedule II Controlled Substances.

Jerome Scott King, 22, along with two (2) other unidentified males, entered the CVS Pharmacy in Hot Springs, Arkansas, brandished a weapon, and

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Twyla Mcelree v. City of Cedar Rapids

St. Louis, MO - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with asserting violations of various federal and state law under the United States Constitution, the Iowa Constitution, and Iowa tort law charges.



In October 2015, Investigators Brandon Boesenberg and Bryson Garringer
were conducting surveillance in a Wal

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United States of America v. Kenneth Zipperer

Madison, WI: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with mail fraud and money laundering.

Kenneth Zipperer, Wausau, Wisconsin, was charged for mail fraud and one count of money laundering.

On November 18, 2020, a federal grand jury sitting in Madison, Wisconsin returned a 26-count indictment against Zipperer charging him with five counts of mail fraud, ten count

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CAROLYN ROBINSON v. WAL-MART STORES EAST, LP

Birmingham, AL - Race Discrimination lawyer represented defendant with a claim for discrimination in discipline charge.



Carolyn Robinson is an African-American pharmacist employed by Walmart
Stores East, LP’s (“Walmart”) from 2005 until her termination in 2018. Ms.
Robison was 51-years old when Walmart fi

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United States of America v. William Robert Fayant

Birmingham, AL: Health care fraud criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, William Robert Fayant, age 56, of Liberty Lake, Washington, who was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud.
“This defendant unlawfully enriched himself by defrauding federally funded health care programs,” U.S. Attorney Escalona said. “As a result of today’s sentence, he will fo

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Leisha Lindsey versus Bio-Medical Applications of Louisiana, L.L.C., incorrectly named as Fresenius Medical Care Louisiana Dialysis Group L.L.C

New Orleans, LA- Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) lawyer represented Plaintiff—Appellant after she was terminated because she was compelled to take FMLA leave.



Leisha Lindsey began working for BMA in January 1999 as a staff
registered nurse and rose through the ranks over the next 17 years. She
earne

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United States of America v. ALLA V. STEPANETS United States of America v. GENE SVIRSKIY United States of America v. CHRISTOPHER M. LEARY

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and seven counts in connection with the introduction of "misbranded" drugs into interstate commerce with the intent to defraud and mislead in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ("FDCA") charges.

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United States of America v. Comfortland Medical, Inc., et al.

Greensboro, North Carolina False Claims Act violation lawyer represented the United States by asserting a Qui Tam claim against Defendant accused of submitting more than $1 million in false claims for payment to the TRICARE program between September 2014 and May 2015.

David and Lois Tsui of Chapel Hill, North Carolina formerly owned Wellcare Compounding, in Hillsborough, North Carolina.

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United States of America v. Wagner Checonolasco, aka “Wanny”

Newark, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with scheme to steal prescription HIV medication from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Wagner Checonolasco, aka “Wanny,” 34, of Lyndhurst, New Jersey, ws charged with conspiring to steal government property.

According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:

From August

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United States of America v. Nedeltcho Vladimirov

Charleston, West Virgnia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiring to commit money laundering and three counts of money laundering.

Nedeltcho Vladimirov, 53, a native of Bulgaria, was convicted by a jury after a three day trial

Evidence at trial revealed that Vladimirov operated a fraudulent fencing operation - a scheme in which stolen goods were acqu

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. CHRISTOPHER BEREZNAK

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant Christopher Bereznak with a unlawful distribution and dispensing of a controlled substance charge.



Bereznak was a dentist licensed to practice in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
As a dentist, he could prescribe controlled substances to his patients. Berezna

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United States of America v. David "Jason" Rutland

Jackson, Mississippi criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with his role in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud TRICARE and private insurance companies by paying kickbacks to distributors for the referral of medically unnecessary compounded prescription medications that were ultimately dispensed by his pharmacies.

David “Jason” Rutland, 42, of Bolton, a pharmacist

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