Defyned Brands, an Austin, Texas, company also known as 5 Star Nutrition LLC, pleaded guilty today to a three-count information charging it with distributing misbranded dietary supplements. Pursuant to the plea agreement, the company admitted that from September 2018 to July 2020, it delivered into interstate commerce misbranded dietary supplements, which are considered a typeDefyned Brands, an Austin, Texas, company also known as 5 Star Nutrition LLC, pleaded guilty today to a three-count information charging it with distributing misbranded dietary supplements. Pursuant to the plea agreement, the company admitted that from September 2018 to July 2020, it delivered into interstate commerce misbranded dietary supplements, which are considered a type » The FINANCIAL Crime
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SALT LAKE CITY The owner of a Utah pharmacy who made a deal to sell the state thousands of doses of hydroxychloroquine as a controversial treatment for COVID-19 admitted in federal court Friday that drugs he bought from China were improperly branded.
Daniel Kevin Richards, the CEO of Draper-based Meds in Motion, pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of receipt of misbranded drugs in interstate commerce in U.S. District Court.
Richards received 50 kilograms of chloroquine and more than 500 kilograms of hydroxychloroquine around April 8, 2020, according to court documents. The product was falsely labeled as boswellia serrata extract, a resin taken from the bark of the boswellia tree grown in India, North Africa and the Middle East used to treat inflammation.