Plumber's counterfeit drug operation down the tubes.(Investigators' Reports)

FDA Consumer | July 1, 1997| | Copyright

A Brooklyn plumber who spent six months in prison for selling counterfeit fertility drugs continues to serve out a three-year probation. Convicted in 1995, David Braun also had to pay $725,000 to the company whose two drugs were illegally copycatted.

FDA continues a multinational investigation of others who were involved in the scheme, including the man FDA's Office of Criminal Investigations suspects was the operation's "kingpin."

Braun's involvement was discovered in a three-month investigation in which OCI agents gathered evidence showing that Braun ...

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