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# Ex-Pharmatech CEO Pleads Guilty to Defrauding FDA
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/ex-pharmatech-ceo-pleads-guilty-to-defrauding-fda/
- Published: 2022-06-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T17:50:02.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: Drugs, #legacy-id-D5152163

Former Pharmatech CEO **Raidel Figueroa** has pled guilty to conspiring to defraud FDA, falsifying records in an agency investigation, obstructing proceedings before FDA, and distributing adulterated drugs, according to a [Justice Department release](https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/press-releases/former-ceo-drug-manufacturing-company-pleads-guilty-conspiring-defraud-fda-and-distributing?ref=fdaweb.com). The drug and dietary supplement manufacturer previously operated in Broward County, FL.

The case dates to a 7/2016 FDA inspection at Pharmatech as part of an investigation into an outbreak of *Burkholderia cepacia* infections. Figueroa was notified that a water sample taken as part of the inspection tested positive for *B. cepacia*.

Although Figueroa told the agency that the company’s purified water system was being reengineered to prevent future contamination, the indictment says he lied during a 3/2017 inspection about the identity of products being manufactured and about the status of the water system.