A Massachusetts woman passed herself as a nurse and dispensed thousands of doses of phony Botox and other fillers that had been smuggled into the United States, authorities said.
Since March 2021, Fadanelli "completed approximately 1,631 Botox appointments, totaling $522,869 in client payments, and 1,085 filler appointments, totaling $410,545 in client payments," federal prosecutors said.
Fadanelli's attorney could not be immediately reached for comment on Monday.
In an interview with agents Fadanelli said she never claimed to be a nurse and didn't make the injections, prosecutors said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning in June, alerting consumers to "harmful reactions among people who received injections of counterfeit or mishandled" Botox.
Persons:
Rebecca Fadanelli, Fadanelli, Brian Hendricks
Organizations:
Stoughton, Attorney's, Food, Drug, Criminal Investigations, Disease Control, CDC
Locations:
Massachusetts, United States, Worcester, Randolph, South Easton, China, Brazil, California , Colorado , Florida , Illinois , Kentucky , New Jersey , New York , Tennessee, Texas