I want to thank the FBI special agents and analysts, as well as our partners at the FDA and U.S. “The FBI is committed to identifying, arresting, and prosecuting those who defraud US businesses and put consumers at risk in an attempt to line their own pockets. “By trafficking in counterfeit dietary supplements, Joseph Shayota and Walid Jamil led an organized criminal conspiracy that violated intellectual property rights and endangered the health and safety of the public for their own financial gain,” said Special Agent in Charge Bennett. Those individuals who manufacture and distribute unsafe counterfeit food products will be prosecuted and sent to jail.” "Consumers can rightly expect that the commercial products they buy are safe to ingest. “Acting out of pure greed, these defendants gambled with the health and safety of millions of users of this well-known consumer product," said U.S Attorney Brian Stretch. Mario Ramirez, 56, of San Diego Camilo Ramirez, 32, of San Diego and Juan Romero, 70, of Mexico City, Mexico. Leslie Roman, 63, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.
Raid Jamil, 48, of West Bloomfield, Mich. Over 3,700,000 bottles of counterfeit 5-Hour ENERGY were placed in the stream of interstate commerce.īesides the Shayotas, other defendants charged with various roles in the scheme include: Justin Shayota, 33, of Spring Valley, Calif.
The criminal conduct began in late 2009 and ran through October 2012. On November 28, 2016, a jury in San Jose found Joseph Shayota, 64, and his wife, Adriana Shayota, 45, (the Shayotas) guilty of conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods, as well as conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and to introduce misbranded food into interstate commerce. District Court Judge, bringing an end to all but one of the cases brought against 11 defendants charged in a scheme involving the manufacture and sale of millions of bottles of the liquid dietary supplement 5-Hour ENERGY. The sentences were handed down yesterday by the Honorable Lucy H. Bennett, and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Criminal Investigations’ Los Angeles Field Office Special Agent in Charge Lisa L. Stretch, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge John F. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Brian J. SAN JOSE – Joseph Shayota and Adriana Shayota were sentenced to 86 months and 26 months in prison, respectively, for their roles in a conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods and conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and to introduce misbranded food into interstate commerce.
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