Six More Indicted in Albers Lipitor Counterfeiting Scheme
The Kansas City Star reports that six additional individuals were indicted in Kansas on Friday on charges of selling counterfeit or illicitly imported Lipitor and other prescription drugs in the secondary wholesale market. The indictment named Gary Wayne Smith of Alabama,Salvatore A. Esposito of New York, Trang Doan Nguyen of Los Angeles, Phillip R. Giannino of Chicago, William Alan McGee of Memphis and James Irland Hoyt Floyd of Huntsville, Alabama. Smith and Esposito were previously indicted. This latest indictment brings to 24 the number of defendants charged in connection with the drug counterfeiting scheme. Fourteen individuals have been convicted, including Doug Albers, who pleaded guilty last October to selling counterfeit and misbranded drugs.