Episodes
Tuesday Jan 28, 2025
Imitation Nation January 28, 2025
Tuesday Jan 28, 2025
Tuesday Jan 28, 2025
This week on Imitation Nation, Shabbir and Sven will tackle the case of "DrXanax" a Canadian national who was just sentenced to 30 years in the U.S. They also cover the indictment of a New York aesthetician who allegedly posed as a medical professional while injecting clients with counterfeit Botox. Lastly they describe a Port of Long Beach smuggling operation that sounds like the script of a Quentin Tarantino movie.
Show notes:
Arden McCann prosecution
Documents: Indictment (2020), Guilty plea (2023), Sentencing memo (2024)
Learn more about OCDETF and the lengths they have gone to prosecute Canadian fake pill sellers in our five part video series about their earlier prosecution, Operation Denial.
Learn about the man that American authorities think is the notorious Canadian fake Xanax dealer called AlpraKing. US authorities think it’s Canadian Alexander Beaudry, and are working on his extradition.
New York Fake Botox indictment
PSM coverage of the fake Botox outbreak of 2024
Joey Grant Luther Criminal Complaint [PDF]
FDA alert for fake Botox found in the U.S.
CDC MMWR article about patient harm during this outbreak
Long Beach Smuggling operation
Indictment (2024)
Friday Jan 10, 2025
Friday Jan 10, 2025
Sven and Shabbir discuss the biggest stories in counterfeits for the last two weeks.
Walmart.com "Birkin Bag" controversy
The U.S. Trade Representative's Notorious Markets Report
- See the press release and the full report.
Xiaofei "Sophie" Chen arrest and prosecution
Sven and Shabbir make their predictions for big developments in counterfeiting and counterfeit prosecutions for 2025
Wednesday Dec 18, 2024
Imitation Nation December 17: Legal Cases and Lawsuits
Wednesday Dec 18, 2024
Wednesday Dec 18, 2024
This week, Shabbir Safdar and Sven Bergmann cover the arrest of a Houston, Texas woman accused of posing as a medical professional and injecting fake lip fillers, a woman in Medina, Tennessee busted selling research-only compounds as weight loss injections, and an update on the lawsuit filed by grieving families against Snapchat. Listen now.
Friday Dec 06, 2024
Imitation Nation, December 6, 2024
Friday Dec 06, 2024
Friday Dec 06, 2024
This week, Shabbir Safdar and Sven Bergmann cover an $18 million dollar counterfeit Gibson guitar seizure in Long Beach, the resolution of a longstanding counterfeit HIV drug case, counterfeit bourbon, and a live DSCSA demo that happened at the American Society for Pharmacy Law conference. Listen now.