California man pleads guilty to pharmaceutical drug fraud
A California man pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to participating in a conspiracy to sell stolen pharmaceutical drugs.
Paul Louis Kriger, 49, of Thousand Oaks, Calif., admitted that his company OTS Sales brokered for Albers Medical Distributors the purchase of Imitrex, Advair, Flovent and Flonase from Welcome Rx, a Pennsylvania business. Albers Medical Distributors paid commissions to OTS, a California corporation engaged in the wholesale brokerage of prescription drugs in the secondary market, of approximately $106,000.
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Kriger admitted that OTS brokered the purchase without first obtaining copies of the required licenses from Welcome Rx, a signed indemnity agreement from Welcome Rx or any pedigree papers showing the origin and prior sale dates of the drugs. Those drugs, which were manufactured by Glaxo-Smith, had been stolen in December 2001 from a warehouse in Miami.
Under the plea agreement, the court will sentence Kriger to four years in federal prison without parole. viagra. A sentencing hearing is scheduled on May 18.
Kriger is the seventh co-defendant to plead guilty to charges contained in the federal indictment.
Stealing mail, identity theft yield 60-month sentence
An Independence man was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison without parole Monday for identity theft, stealing mail and illegally possessing firearms.
Darren S. Whiteside, 39, pleaded guilty on July 26, to participating in a conspiracy in 2004 and 2005 to steal mail and use the personal financial information in the stolen mail to commit identity theft. More than 400 residents had their mail stolen with a total loss of approximately $43,000.
Whiteside and Laura Walters, 36, of Independence, stole mail from rural roadside mailboxes in eastern Jackson County, said Bradley J. Schlozman, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Missouri, sometimes following mail trucks on their routes and stealing mail immediately after it was left in the boxes. If they found financial information regarding credit accounts or other financial resources, Whiteside used the victims’ information to make computer-generated counterfeit identifications, such as driver’s licenses.
Walters, who pleaded guilty to her role in the conspiracy as well as to stealing mail, aggravated identity theft and credit card fraud, was sentenced in September to three years and three months in federal prison without parole.
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