U.S. Attorney, Federal Law Enforcement to Announce Charges Against Wholesale Pharmaceutical Company & Its Executives

The following press release was published by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys on July 18, 2019. It is reproduced in full below.

CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged a pharmaceutical distributor, two of its former officials and two pharmacists with conspiring to distribute millions of painkiller pills in an indictment returned here yesterday. Defendants were arrested by federal agents this morning.

The briefing will be held:

TODAY: THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2019

WHEN: 2:30 P.M.

WHERE: U.S. Attorney’s Office

Library

221 E. 4th Street, Fourth Floor

Cincinnati, Ohio 45202

WHO: U.S. Attorney Benjamin C. Glassman

Kathy Federico, Diversion Program Manager, DEA

Mauricio Jimenez, Assistant Special Agent in Charge, DEA

Verne Waldow, Assistant Special Agent in Charge, HHS-OIG

Room available beginning at 2:15 P.M. No TV lighting will be available. ID will be required for entrance at Security on the fourth floor.

Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys