Florida Residents Sentenced to 18 Years’ Prison Over Fraud Scheme Involving Baby Formula

Florida Residents Sentenced to 18 Years’ Prison Over Fraud Scheme Involving Baby Formula
A photo purports to show baby formula products at a Texas illegal immigrant processing facility in Hidalgo, Texas, on May 11, 2022. Rep. Kat Cammack's office
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Three individuals from South Florida have each been sentenced to 220 months in prison by a federal district judge in Miami after a jury found them guilty of a fraud scheme involving infant formula, eye-care products, and other FDA-regulated items.

Between 2013 and 2018, Johnny Grobman, 48, Raoul Doekhie, 53, and Sherida Nabi, 57, deceived U.S. manufacturers to secure deep discounts on products. The group told manufacturers that they were buying products to ship to Suriname as part of some government procurement contracts they held in the country, a May 20 Department of Justice press release states.