A recent article points out the dangers of purchasing prescription drugs over the internet. As a Massachusetts attorney concentrating in personal injury law in Boston, Thomas M. Kiley wants people to be aware of the legal issues when purchasing drugs online.
In a news broadcast on MSNBC, a federal judge sentenced Jared Wheat, CEO of Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, to 50 months in prison for illegally selling knockoff prescription drugs over the internet. U.S. District Judge Jack T. Camp also fined Wheat $50,000, and ordered him, the company and other individual defendants to forfeit $3 million in proceeds for illegally manufacturing popular lines of herbal dietary supplements.
In a plea bargain agreement, the defendants Wheat, Stephen D. Smith and Tomasz Holda, also sentenced to prison, admitted to operating a facility in Belize that made generic versions of drugs like Xanax, Valium, Ambien, Vioxx, Zoloft, Viagra, and Cialis, and selling them over the internet without prescriptions.
