Miami Woman Gets 4 Years in Prison for Illegal Silicone Injection Scheme
By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law
On September 20, 2017, a Florida federal judge sentenced a Florida woman to more than four years in prison for her part in a conspiracy to inject non-medical silicone into the buttocks of hundreds of spa customers. U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. Williams handed down the sentence to Magaly Del Rosario, who pled guilty for her part in the scheme to purchase “misbranded” silicone from Colombia and inject it into her “patients.” The “patients” were seeking “buttocks augmentation” at the Bella Beauty Spa in Miami between 2008 and 2015, according to court documents.
The Scheme.
Prosecutors […]