1亿美元膳食补充剂欺诈洗钱案最后一名被告被判36个月监禁
2026年3月4日，美国司法部犹他区联邦检察官办公室宣布，一桩被司法部称为1亿美元膳食补充剂欺诈与洗钱案的最后一名被告获刑：现年55岁、家住犹他州盐湖城的 Phillip Gannuscia 被联邦地区法官 David Barlow 判处36个月监禁，另加24个月监督释放，其与案件相关的一辆 Porsche 911 敞篷车被没收。
Gannuscia 已于2025年4月9日承认一项共谋洗钱罪。据法庭文件与听证陈述，2018年12月至2022年4月间，他与同伙用亲友的个人信息设立假公司，为这些假公司申请信用卡处理账户，用来收取营养保健品与膳食补充剂的消费者付款；由于销售靠误导性广告拉动，账户屡因退款与拒付过多被关停，一伙人便不断换壳开户、处理款项并清洗赃款。他还承认多次清洗单笔超过1万美元的欺诈所得，个人可归因收益超过150万美元。
案发时，Gannuscia 本人正受一项法院永久禁令约束，被禁止从事信用卡洗钱以及协助他人作虚假陈述以取得信用卡处理服务。他承认自己刻意把操作藏在幕后以逃避公众视线与追责，并指使他人在假公司文件上伪造、粘贴签名。
此案由美国国税局刑事调查局（IRS-CI）与美国食品药品管理局刑事调查办公室调查，犹他区联邦检察官办公室助理检察官 Brent L. Andrus 与 Luisa Gough 负责起诉。
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Final Defendant in $100 Million Dietary Supplement Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme Sentenced to 36 Months in Prison
On March 4, 2026, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Utah announced the sentencing of the final defendant in what the Justice Department calls a $100 million dietary supplement fraud and money laundering scheme: Phillip Gannuscia, 55, of Salt Lake City, Utah, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge David Barlow to 36 months' imprisonment, followed by 24 months of supervised release, and ordered to forfeit his Porsche 911 convertible, which was traceable to the scheme.
Gannuscia had pleaded guilty on April 9, 2025, to conspiracy to commit money laundering. According to court documents and statements at his plea and sentencing hearings, from around December 2018 through April 2022 he and others used the personal information of family and friends to create fake companies and open credit card processing accounts for them, through which consumers paid for nutraceutical and dietary products. Because the sales were driven by misleading and deceptive advertising, the accounts were frequently shut down over high numbers of refunds and chargebacks, so the group kept setting up new shell companies, processing the payments and laundering the proceeds. He admitted to laundering money on numerous occasions, each involving more than $10,000 of fraud proceeds, with total gains attributable to him of more than $1.5 million.
At the time, Gannuscia was already subject to a court order permanently enjoining him from credit card laundering and from making or assisting others in making false statements to obtain credit card processing services. He admitted setting up the operations to shield himself from public view and accountability, and directing others to forge and paste signatures on documents for the fake companies.
The case was investigated by IRS Criminal Investigation and the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Criminal Investigations, and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Brent L. Andrus and Luisa Gough of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Utah.
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来源：美国司法部犹他区联邦检察官办公室
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图片来源：图：位于美国华盛顿的美国国税局总部大楼宪法大道入口立面（资料照片），本案由国税局刑事调查局参与调查。Carol M. Highsmith 摄，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons；联邦固定图库。 / Photo: The Constitution Avenue entrance of the Internal Revenue Service headquarters in Washington, D.C. (file photo); IRS Criminal Investigation took part in the case. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; federal fixed image library.
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