Washington salon owner sentenced for providing unlicensed cosmetic treatments
January 16th, 2010 - 1:10 pm ICT by BNO NewsISSAQUAH, WASHINGTON (BNO NEWS) – A Bellevue, WA salon owner was sentenced Friday to thirteen months in prison in connection with unlicensed cosmetic treatments.
Xin He, aka, Faith He, 46, was sentenced after Faith He was shown to use counterfeit Botox and Restylane on customers at her Bellevue beauty salon. Faith He was not a medical doctor licensed to use injectable treatments for wrinkle removal such as Botox and Restylane. According to the indictment, as early as 2004, Faith He injected a substance that she later represented was Restylane into the face of a Washington woman. Courts records indicate the woman’s face became inflamed and she sought treatment from a dermatologist. The material injected into the woman’s face was later confirmed not to be genuine Restylane.
The Washington State Department of Health investigated and issued a cease and desist order to Faith He in July 2006. The order was issued after she offered to inject an undercover agent with what she claimed was Botox at Faith He’s residence.
Despite that order, in April 2008, Faith He was once again injecting patients in a Bellevue salon. A woman had to be treated by a plastic surgeon after the locations Faith He had injected became hard and swollen.
In court Friday, a U.S. Attorney urged the court to reject the defense request for a probationary sentence saying, “This defendant cannot be trusted. She is a liar and a manipulator. She was exposing every person she treated to risk of death.”
Faith He was sentenced to thirteen months in prison and one year of supervised release for a felony count of Misbranding of a Drug While Held for Sale and two misdemeanor counts of Receipt & Proffered Delivery of Adulterated Device. She was ordered into immediate custody.
This was a joint investigation by the FDA Office of Criminal Investigations and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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