The U.S. Dept. of Justice announced that it charged Arrayit president March Schena for alleged involvement with fraudulent claims for allergy and COVID-19 testing.
In a news release, the DOJ alleged that Schena participated in schemes to mislead investors, manipulate Arrayit’s stock price and conspired to commit health care fraud in connection with the submission of over $69 million in false and fraudulent claims for allergy and COVID-19 testing. It is the first criminal securities fraud prosecution related to the COVID-19 pandemic brought by the DOJ.
According to the affidavit in support of the complaint, Schena claimed that Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Arrayit was the only laboratory in the world offering microarray technology that can test for allergy and COVID-19 based on a drop of blood 250,000 times smaller than technology boasted by Theranos.
Source: DOJ charges medtech exec with fraud over COVID-19 tests / Mass Device
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