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Article: Plumber's counterfeit drug operation down the tubes.(Investigators' Reports)
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- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- July 1, 1997
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A Brooklyn plumber who spent six months in prison for selling counterfeit fertility drugs continues to serve out a three-year probation. Convicted in 1995, David Braun also had to pay $725,000 to the company whose two drugs were illegally copycatted.
FDA continues a multinational investigation of others who were involved in the scheme, including the man FDA's Office of Criminal Investigations suspects was the operation's "kingpin."
Braun's involvement was discovered in a three-month investigation in which OCI agents gathered evidence showing that Braun ran a shell company--an answering service with a fictitious name and address that took orders for ...