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FEDS DISMISS INDICTMENT AGAINST 10 IN FORT LAUDERDALE INTERNET PHARMACY CASE

By Robert David, Esq.

By Robert David Malove, Esquire Exclusive to the Health Care Fraud Blog FORT LAUDERDALE, FL (April 6, 2008) In a stunning development with implications in two large prosecutions, the United States dismissed with prejudice an Indictment against 10 individuals today in a South Florida courtroom, two of whom had already plead guilty and testified in the trial against the other eight defendants. This follows an eight week trial featuring two mistrials, one based on prosecutorial misconduct and also included accusations against the government of witness tampering and the testimony of a federal prosecutor to attempt to refute the testimony that the government gave permission for one of the defendants to operate his business. The events leading to the dismissal were set in place last week when Judge William Zloch refused to sentence two defendants, Emanuel Anotonio and Theopholis Antoniuo...continue to full post

Full post as published by Health Care Fraud Blog on April 06, 2009 (boomark / email).