[NCUC-DISCUSS] Fwd: Proposed Changes To WHOIS System Privacy Will Help Hide Internet Criminals, NABP Director Warns

[Tracy Cooley]

Good day- I am new to the group and wanted to make sure that others saw the first story below as it references ICANN. 

Thank you
Tracy Cooley
Executive Director
Campaign for Personal Prescription Importation
https://Personal Importation.org

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> From: Executive Director <shabbir at safemedicines.org>
> Date: August 6, 2018 at 6:00:53 AM EDT
> To: tracy.cooley at personalimportation.org
> Subject: Proposed Changes To WHOIS System Privacy Will Help Hide Internet Criminals, NABP Director Warns
> Reply-To: shabbir at safemedicines.org
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> Weekly News
> Counterfeit pills made with fentanyl and fentanyl analogues are still being passed off as genuine medication all over the United States to deadly effect. Here are recent stories of counterfeit pills made with fentanyl in California, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Rhode Island.
> A California man has been sentenced to 26 years in prison for being the ring leader of a conspiracy to manufacture and distribute counterfeits of Norco and Xanax made from Chinese-produced acetyl fentanyl. 
> Gary Resnik, of Long Beach pleaded guilty to being the leader of an organization that was selling between 40,000 and 45,000 fake pills every month.
> Police have arrested triplet brothers in Raleigh, North Carolina for purchasing in bulk and distributing counterfeit Xanax. They are alleged to have ordered 10,000 Xanax pills and 10,000 fentanyl pills over the Internet and of supplying pills to high school students in Holly Springs. 
> A South Carolina man named Eric Hughes has been indicted along with two others as part of a large conspiracy to manufacture counterfeit Xanax and oxycodone pills made with U-47700, ordered in bulk from China. Hughes is alleged to have marketed his fake pills online to customers all over the United States.
> A Rhode Island man has been accused of being an organizer of an international drug ring that sold tens of thousands of fentanyl pills all over the United States. 31 other people have been indicted in this conspiracy which was launched after the  January 2015 overdose death of Bailey Henke of Grand Forks, North Dakota.
> Investigators Losing Ability to Detect Fake Online Pharmacies
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> Did you know that there is a tool that allows investigators to see who owns a domain name for a criminal website, like a fake online pharmacy? That tool is called whois, and in the process of investigating a website that purports to be an online pharmacy, investigators use "whois", along with many other tools, to establish the owner of the website. They can ask questions like, "Is the domain name registered to a real licensed American pharmacist? Is it even registered to an owner in the United States?"
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> At least, they used to be able to. As National Association of Boards of Pharmacy Executive Director Carmen Catizone explains in a August 1st editorial for Inside Source, investigators are losing the ability to see website domain name owners until they can prove it's involved in wrong doing, a chicken and egg problem. Why? The non governmental entity that oversees domain names (ICANN) is taking that ability away and blaming the new European Union General Data Privacy Regulation.
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> But really, it's American patients who will lose out.
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> Read Catizone's editorial here.
> Breath Fresheners Substituted For Legitimate Medicine In $50M Diverted Pill Scheme 
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> The former president of Cumberland Distribution, Inc. was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in a 32-month long scheme that saw over $50 million of diverted drugs shipped to pharmacies around the country. Indicted in January 2013 along with co-conspirators Charles Jeffrey Edwards and Brenda Edwards, a jury found Jerrod Nichols Smith guilty of 15 counts of mail fraud, conspiracy, and making a false statement to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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> From December 2006 through August 2009, Cumberland Distribution, Inc. purchased millions of dollars of prescription drugs from unlicensed suppliers who had sourced the drugs from street-level drug diverters in and around New York and Miami. The drugs were shipped to Cumberland's warehouse in Nashville, Tennessee to be cleaned, sorted, repackaged and sent to independent pharmacies around the country. Classes of medications diverted in this scheme included drugs to combat HIV/AIDS, antipsychotics, antidepressants, blood pressure medications, and diabetes medications.
> At the trial, several witnesses testified that they saw a medication bottle that contained breath fresheners instead of medicine. Learn more about this Tennessee drug diversion scheme.
> Miami-Dade County Woman Indicted For Performing Illegal Silicone Injections
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> The United States Attorney's Office Southern District of Florida has indicted a Miami-Dade County resident for illegally injecting silicone into her clients. Kerly Mercedes Chaparro's is charged with delivery for pay of an adulterated and misbranded device received in interstate commerce with intent to defraud and mislead. Her arraignment is scheduled for August 6, 2018.
> Learn more about this Florida silicone injection case.
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> Did you know there's a pharmaceutical discount card offered by Univision that you can use to get discounts in over 49,000 pharmacies across America today?
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> Did you know you don't have to have health insurance or identification to use it. It's completely free. Click here or on the image to learn more.
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> About the Partnership for Safe Medicines
> The Partnership for Safe Medicines is a group of organizations and individuals that have policies, procedures, or programs to protect consumers from counterfeit or contraband medicines. For more information, please visit SafeMedicines.org.
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