Online Pharmacy Business Ordered To Pay $15.8 million For False Advertising
An Atlanta Federal Judge has ordered the operators and founders of a now defunct online pharmaceutical business to pay fines totaling $15.8 million for fraudulent claims they made about their drugs to the US Federal Trade Commisision. The order also held Dr. Terrill Mark Wright responsible for false advertising claims and is to pay $15.4 million to compensate consumers for his part in promoting drugs created by the National Urological Group, the National Institute for Clinical Weight Loss Inc. and Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals Inc. among others.
U.S. District Judge Charles A. Pannell, who issued these orders, called the violations against the FTC "numerous and grave."
Birmingham lawyer J. Stephen Salter, who represents Jared Wheat, one of the corporate officers to be held accountable, stated that his client "is doing everything by the book" and that he is "in complete compliance" with how online pharmacies are to be operated. Salter plans to file an appeal in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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June 16th, 2008 - 03:58
What exactly did they say that was “false”, I wonder?