[ Docs ] The Adderal scheme bring jail sentences and further investigations

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[ Docs ] The Adderal scheme bring jail sentences and further investigations

elehealth Firm Indicted on Alleged $100 Million Adderall Scheme
December 17, 2025, 9:50 AM EST
Isaiah Poritz

Ben Penn
Senior Reporter

Ten milligram tablets of the hyperactivity drug Adderall, made by Shire Plc.
Photographer: JB Reed/Bloomberg News

Telemedicine company Done Global Inc. was indicted by a federal grand
jury Tuesday over what prosecutors said is a scheme to illegally
distribute over $100 million in Adderall and other ADHD medicines over
the internet.

The move is highly unusual for a Justice Department that more often
reaches out-of-court settlements with corporations and occurred a month
after the company’s founder and clinical director were found guilty on
drug charges.

The indictment in the San Francisco-based US District Court for the
Northern District of California alleges the digital health company also
committed health care fraud when it conspired to prescribe 40 million
pills of Adderall and other stimulants to patients who didn’t need the
drugs, DOJ announced Wednesday.

Done Global’s founder and CEO Ruthia He and its clinical president David
Brody were found guilty in November of health care fraud and drug
charges after a nearly two-month jury trial. They were first charged in
2024 in what federal prosecutors said was a first-of-its-kind case
against executives at a telehealth company.

Prosecutors are now attaching that criminal conduct to the company
itself, accusing Done of operating a subscription model where
individuals paid a monthly fee to receive easy access to Adderall
prescriptions through a network of doctors and medical providers. Done
Global pressured its prescribers to write more prescriptions without a
medical purpose, prosecutors said.

“Instead of leveraging technology to improve patient access to care and
enhance communications, Done Global saw it as a way to boost profit,”
San Francisco-based US Attorney Craig H. Missakian said in a statement.
“We will vigorously pursue companies that engage in this kind of fraud
and put patients at risk.”

DOJ was in negotiations with the company to reach a settlement in the
months leading up to last month’s trial, and they were re-engaged after
the trial conviction but without success, according to a source familiar
with the indictment.

In October, the department’s criminal fraud section took a similarly
infrequent step of going to the grand jury to obtain an indictment of
another corporation—voting technology vendor Smartmatic on foreign
bribery charges—also after resolution talks broke down.

Matthew Galeotti, the acting head of DOJ’s Criminal Division, previewed
the possibility of more company indictments when speaking to an audience
of white-collar defense attorneys Dec. 3.

Businesses who engage in meaningful cooperation and negotiations can
expect more favorable resolutions, he said at a legal conference. “But
the flip side is when you don’t take advantage of that collaborative
effort, there’s always a chance—and I think you may see more to
come—where companies get indicted if they can’t come to resolutions with
us.”

Done Global is among a number of telehealth companies that saw fast
growth during the pandemic when patients had difficulty accessing
in-person mental health and medical care. Cerebral Inc., a similar
digital mental health service, resolved a non-prosecution agreement with
the Justice Department last year after agreeing to pay $3.6 million.

The case is USA v. Done Global, N.D. Cal., No. 3:25-cr-00432.
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