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30 years of $x million annual sales of essentially counterfeit product results in "up to" a year long sentence and $100,000 fine. Madness. Though I find it iro
by _puk 10y ago
30 years of $x million annual sales of essentially counterfeit product results in "up to" a year long sentence and $100,000 fine. Madness.
Though I find it ironic that they responded honestly to the FOI request.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoYou are surprised the FDA responded honestly to a Freedom of Information Act request? The FOIA request was a request to the FDA from Bloomberg for the FDA's investigation on Castle. It was used by Bloomberg to write the article. The Freedom of Information Act is only to request information from a government agency. To uncover the fraud the FDA physically visited Castle. They were tipped off by a disgruntled former employee. Without the tip off there is a extremely small chance they would have ever been caught.
- _puk 10y agoActually missed this point about the FDA visiting on the tip-off, hence my surprise. The FDA can only respond with the information they have, so as it took the FDA actually visiting Castle (on a tip-off no less), they must have been lied to as well. Surely, a FOI request can't realistically trigger someone jumping in a car to verify data held on file.