A Florida physician and three staff members at a medical research center have been charged with falsifying clinical trial data for prospective new drug treatments, the Justice Department said in a June 10 news release.
Jaynier Moya, MD, co-owner and principal investigator at Pines Care Research Center in Pembroke Pines, Fla., and three clinical research coordinators allegedly fabricated testing data and falsified records beginning no later than 2019 to make it appear that human subjects had taken study medications and undergone required testing when they had not. The defendants allegedly used identification documents from individuals who did not actually participate in the trials to create false records and submitted falsified data into clinical trial database systems used for FDA drug evaluation.
Dr. Moya and two of the coordinators are each charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and three counts of substantive wire fraud, each carrying a maximum of 20 years in prison. A fourth coordinator was charged separately in a criminal information. All charges are allegations only and there has been no determination of liability.
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