Jason Cardiff is accused of charging customers for drugs that they never ordered with names like Prolongz and TBX-Free and of destroying documents sought in an FTC probe
The late-night infomercials made lots of claims about the dissolvable oral strips being sold. Depending on the ad, Redwood Scientific Technologies (RSCI) said they could help people quit smoking, lose weight or help men perform longer in bed.
"I used Prolongz last night and this morning, if you know what I mean," claimed one man in a testimonial for the company's homeopathic, male enhancement drug featured in one of their 30-minute infomercials.
The claims about the effectiveness of Prolongz, homeopathic smoking cessation drug, TBX-Free and weight-loss strip, Eupepsia Thin, soon caught the attention of the Federal Trade Commission. After years of legal wrangling, a judge ruled that the California company had made false claims about the efficacy of the drugs, and ordered them to halt operations.
Then early last year, federal prosecutors secured a criminal indictment accusing the company's head, Jason Edward Thomas Cardiff, 48, of fraud for allegedly charging customers over and over again for drugs they never asked for and for allegedly getting employees to destroy documents the FTC had sought as part of their probe.
The problem for prosecutors was that Cardiff had left the country, according to court documents, selling his house in Upland, California and moving to Ireland where he has dual citizenship with...
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