FedEx said federal investigators have declined to supply it with a list of suspect pharmacies. The company said it “can immediately shut off shipping services to those pharmacies” if given such a list.
A DOJ spokesman declined to comment about the FedEx investigation.
In a prepared statement announcing the UPS settlement, Food and Drug Administration criminal chief John Roth said the “FDA is hopeful that the positive actions taken by UPS in this case will send a message to other shipping firms to put public health and safety above profits.”
Earlier this week, a federal judge in San Francisco sentenced Chris Napoli to four years in prison and ordered to forfeit $24 million his illicit pharmacy Safescripts Online earned between 2004 and 2006. Two other men were sentenced to prison along with Napoli. Receipts from UPS and FedEx were used as evidence in the trio’s trial last year.
In 2011, Google Inc. agreed to pay $500 million to settle allegations by the Justice Department that it profited from ads for illegal online pharmacies.
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