Two Indicted For Sales Of Expired Lap-Band Devices
Executive Summary
Two former sales executives at Apollo Endo-Surgery were indicted Dec. 8 in Florida on charges that they fraudulently relabeled and resold expired Lap-Band gastric surgery devices.
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