'Career
criminal' faces jail and possible deportation. (Basil
Wainwright convicted of selling unapproved
ozone-generating devices as disease cures)
FDA Consumer; September 01, 1994; Farley, Dixie
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FDA Consumer
September 01, 1994
After an investigation by four FDA district offices,
the mastermind of a medical fraud was sentenced to
37 months in a federal prison for selling unapproved
ozone generators as a cure for serious illnesses
such as cancer and AIDS. The scheme's four
conspirators, British citizens, swindled investors
and desperate patients out of hundreds of thousands
of dollars. At least three patients who bought the
"cure" died.
U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungarro-Benages, of the
Southern District of Florida, Miami, sentenced Basil
Earle Wainwright March 1, 1994. Wainwright had
pleaded guilty Sept. 13, 1993, while in jail on
state charges, to eight felony counts of
distributing adulterated and misbranded ozone
generators. His nowdefunct firms included
Anglo-American Research, Inc., in Tecate, Calif.,
and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Decadata Research
Inc., in Tucson, Ariz.
Shortly after the four were indicted in the spring
of 1991, defendants Edward Frizzell and George...
