DOJ Clamps Down On Internet Pharmacy


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November 9, 2007 2:21 p.m. EST

Topics: science and technology
Ed Sutherland - AHN Editor

Des Moines, IA (AHN) - Federal prosecutors said Thursday six men -- including doctors and pharmacists -- should repay $40 million earned by allegedly selling more than 12 million narcotic pills illegally through an Internet pharmacy.

In a 31-count indictment filed in a Cedar Rapids U.S. District Court, the Justice Department claim the men filled 246,000 prescriptions for controlled substances.

The indictment named: Orlando Birbraghyer of Miami, Fla., Marshall Neil Kanner of Miami Beach, Fla., Jack Eugene Huzi, formerly of Dubuque, Iowa, Douglas Willis Bouchey, formerly of Dubuque, Iowa, Armando Angulo, formerly of Miami, Fla., and Peter Lopez, formerly of Puerto Rico.

According to the government, Birbraghyer and Kanner ran BuyMeds.com, a Web site now closed. The two also allegedly conspired with U.S. doctors and pharmacies to fill the prescriptions made at the site.

The orders were allegedly completed by pharmacists Huzl and Bouchey, while Angulo and Lopez, doctors, allegedly sent prescriptions to the online pharmacy.

The six men are slated for arraignment Nov. 16.


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