Florida man faces 100+ years in prison for allegedly distributing $230M in adulterated drugs
A Florida man allegedly set up an illicit network of drug wholesale operations in the US and used them to harvest $230 million from the sale of adulterated and mislabeled HIV meds.
According to the US Department of Justice, 51-year-old Lazaro Hernandez was charged with obtaining a large supply of HIV meds illegally, then creating false drug labels and documents to make it possible to sell them at a deep discount to co-conspirators at “wholesale pharmaceutical distributors in Mississippi, Maryland, and New York.”
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