Thursday, August 8, 2013

IMPORTANT/PRIORITY: Pharmacist from Pennslyvania pleads guilty to charges from TX of selling prescription compounded drugs over the Internet illegally Posted: Aug 08, 2013 7:33 PM CDT Updated: Aug 08, 2013 7:33 PM CDT


SHERMAN – A pharmacist has pleaded guilty in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to charges originating in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
 Eric Vern Fox, 45, a pharmacist living in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy, in violation of federal money laundering laws, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
These charges were transferred from the Eastern District of Texas for guilty plea and sentencing. According to the charges, from June 2002 until September 2007, Fox owned and operated two compounding pharmacies in Pennsylvania. 
The indictment alleges that from June 2002 until September 2007, Fox agreed with the owners and operators of an illegal Internet pharmacy, the Madison Pain Clinic, located in Texas, to compound millions of hydrocodone pills that the Madison Pain Clinic sold to Internet customers under fraudulent "prescriptions," outside the usual course of professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose.
 The money laundering charge to which Fox pleaded guilty alleges that between June 2002 and September 2007, Fox was paid by the Madison Pain Clinic for the hydrocodone pills that the clinic sold to its Internet customers, and agreed to launder the proceeds of this illegal activity totaling at least $4,500,000.
The plea agreement calls for Fox to receive an agreed-upon sentence of twelve months and a day in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.
The plea agreement also requires Fox to forfeit the sum of $2,000,000 and pay an assessment of $100.
At the hearing today, the Honorable R. Barclay Surrick accepted the plea agreement, scheduling sentencing to take place on November 8, 2013.
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