DoJ criminal prosecutions in supplement sector have focused on undisclosed steroids targeted for consumers typically aware the products contain more than labels indicate. But weighing consumers’ vulnerability to false claims also factors in federal prosecutors’ decisions on seeking criminal charges in consumer health products sector.
Associate Deputy Attorney General Kevin Chambers oversees DoJ’s enforcement and prosecution of COVID-19 criminal and civil fraud.
American Rescue Plan Act appropriated $50m to Consumer Product Safety Commission and $30.4m to Federal Trade Commission for COVID-19-related enforcement. Neither agency received funding for pandemic-related enforcement in previous relief packages.
Gordon Pedersen was indicted on criminal charges linked to posing as a physician to fraudulently promote and sell ingestible silver-based products as a cure for COVID-19 despite having no evidence his products could treat or cure the disease.
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Vadodara/Surat. A special CBI court has convicted four individuals in a 23-year-old fire insurance fraud case in Gujarat and sentenced each of them to three years of rigorous imprisonment. The cou...