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\"\"A Florida man was arrested Friday for allegedly distributing more than $230 million in adulterated HIV drugs, according to authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n

The drugs were dispensed to unsuspecting patients throughout the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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According to a federal grand jury indictment unsealed Friday, Lazaro Hernandez, 51, of Miami, was allegedly part of a nationwide scheme to defraud the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.<\/span><\/p>\n

He illegally distribute more than $230 million in adulterated and misbranded prescription drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n

If convicted of all counts, Hernandez faces a maximum total penalty of more than 100 years in prison. He is presumed innocent unless proven guilty, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"As alleged in the indictment, Hernandez acquired large quantities of HIV medication illegally. He then created false drug labeling and other documentation to make it appear as though these high-priced drugs had been obtained legitimately. <\/span><\/p>\n

To carry out the scheme, Hernandez and co-conspirators established licensed wholesale drug distribution companies in Florida, New Jersey, Connecticut, and New York. <\/span><\/p>\n

Hernandez and his co-conspirators used those companies to sell the adulterated drugs at steep discounts to other co-conspirators at wholesale pharmaceutical distributors in Mississippi, Maryland, and New York. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"brownThose wholesale pharmaceutical distributors then resold the drugs to pharmacies throughout the country, which billed the drugs to health insurers, including Medicare, and dispensed the adulterated and misbranded HIV medication to unsuspecting patients.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As alleged in the indictment, between approximately 2019 and 2021, the wholesale pharmaceutical distributors paid Hernandez and his co-conspirators more than $230 million for the illegally acquired and adulterated prescription drugs. <\/span><\/p>\n

Hernandez allegedly laundered those hundreds of millions of dollars through the use of several corporations in Miami.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hernandez is charged with conspiracy to deliver into interstate commerce adulterated and misbranded drugs, conspiracy to traffic in medical products with false documentation, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and specific money laundering offenses. <\/span><\/p>\n

The defendant was also charged in a separate, superseding indictment that was returned by a grand jury in Miami on June 14. <\/span><\/p>\n

According to officials, Trial Attorney Alexander Thor Pogozelski of the Criminal Division\u2019s Fraud Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy James Abraham of the Southern District of Florida are prosecuting the case. <\/span><\/p>\n

Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Stone is handling forfeiture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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