Recently, a California businessman was indicted for selling "medically useless" home AIDS test kits in pharmacies, through the mail and over the Internet. Lawrence Clare Greene, owner of LEI-Home Access Care and Jin-Green Biotechnology, was named in a 43-count indictment charging mail and wire fraud.
According the US Attorney's office, the kits claimed to test for both HIV and the Hepatitis A virus. Despite marketing claims that the kits were "confidential, safe, accurate and easy to use" the kits had never been approved by the FDA. "In fact the method of testing marketed by Green lacked any scientific or factual basis," said US Attorney Paul Seave.
According to the indictment, Green sold kits to about 30 people mainly in New York and Florida and also distributed them to pharmacies in California's Central Valley.
"Those who seek to profit from the tragedies associated with the spread of the HIV virus by illegal means will be vigorously prosecuted for their despicable acts," said Seave.
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