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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