George Kindness Pleads Guilty to Criminal Misbranding
On July 6, 2005, George Kindness, on behalf of himself and and Amscot Medical Labs, pleaded guilty to one count of being aided and abetted in the introduction of a misbranded drug (an alleged cancer vaccine) into interstate commerce with intent to mislead. The plea agreement, reproduced below, settles charges filed in 2003. According to the indictment: Kindness, who resides in Middletown, Ohio, has been Amscot’s president, part-owner, and laboratory director since 1992. In 1999, the FDA discovered that Amscot had been making “vaccines” from blood and tumor tissues of cancer patients and shipping them to an unidentified co-conspirator who used them to treat patients. After the FDA informed Kindness that such treatment was illegal without investigative new drug (IND) approval, an application was submitted. …
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