Tag: FDA
Jia Bei Zhu, COVID Test Fraud, California 2026
⏱ 2 min read A California biolab operator, Jia Bei Zhu, 64, has been found guilty of selling over a million fake COVID tests for nearly $4 million to customers across the US. The scheme, which involved Zhu’s company Universal Meditech Inc. (UMI), was uncovered in Fresno, California, where Zhu lied to the FDA about…
Michael Shawn Boaz, Health Care Fraud, Kentucky 2022
⏱ 2 min read A pharmacist in Western Kentucky made a killing off his customers – not from saving lives, but from overcharging them for vitamins and prescriptions. Michael Shawn Boaz, 47, of Clinton, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his role in a $2 million health care fraud scheme that spanned four…
Michelle Kollmar, Prescription Forgery, Virginia 2023
⏱ 2 min read A Chesapeake nurse, Michelle Kollmar, 56, got caught stealing painkillers from patients suffering from cancer and sickle-cell anemia at a healthcare facility in Virginia. Between January 2023 and March 2024, Kollmar used patients’ personal info to access automated prescription machines and divert vials of hydromorphone. She’d replace the vials with syringes,…
Rebecca Fadanelli, Counterfeit Botox Distribution, Massachusetts 2021
⏱ 2 min read A Stoughton, Mass., woman injected hundreds of clients with fake Botox and dermal fillers, raking in over $1 million in the process. Rebecca Fadanelli, 40, the owner of Skin Beaute Med Spa with locations in Randolph and South Easton, Mass., imported counterfeit Botox, Sculptra and Juvéderm from China and Brazil and…
Shelbi Wolken, Administered Fentanyl, Colorado 2023
A Denver hospital case manager systematically swapped opioid painkillers for over-the-counter allergy medication, leaving 127 patients vulnerable and in needless suffering. Shelbi Wolken, 35, confessed in federal court to a brazen scheme that stretched for seven months, exploiting a position of trust to fuel a personal addiction. The fallout could have been deadly, and the…
David Webber, Fake Viagra and Cialis Trafficking, Nevada 2018
⏱ 3 min read David Webber, 50, of Henderson, Nevada, built a nearly $2 million empire slinging fake Viagra and Cialis, according to a federal indictment unsealed today. For at least five years, since 2018, Webber allegedly imported hundreds of thousands of illicit erectile dysfunction pills from unregistered factories in India, then pushed them onto…
