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What Is It About Federal Prosecutors and Internet Pharmacy Cases?

By Robert David, Esq.

SAN DIEGO (January 26) Less than a year after a South Florida internet Pharmacy trial was dismissed in part due to prosecutorial misconduct, (click: here to read more) another large internet pharmacy case may be heading the same way. A federal judge in San Diego is considering dismissal of a case that initially ended in a mistrial last year after allegations arose that the prosecutor in the case made misstatements to the court about data on computer servers obtained by the government that defense attorneys had requested and were told didn?t exist. We reported about this case last summer here. The Affpower case was the first internet pharmacy case to use the racketeering statute to prosecute a number of participants in an alleged unlawful internet pharmacy operation and for one of the first times included website owners who were marketers and not involved in the pharmacy or medical affairs of the operation...continue to full post

Full post as published by Health Care Fraud Blog on January 27, 2010 (boomark / email).