United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced today that Jan C. Seski, M.D. & Associates, P.C., an oncology practice based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to a criminal charge of having caused the introduction of an unapproved drug into interstate commerce and was ordered to pay a $100,000 fine. Magistrate Judge Karen S. Crawford also ordered the defendant to place ads in two medical journals, warning of the dangers of unapproved drugs. 
 
 In pleading guilty earlier today before Judge Crawford, the medical practice admitted that between December 4, 2008 and May 25, 2011, the practice ordered $973,795 worth of foreign versions of the oncology drugs Eloxatin7, Gemzar7, and Taxotere7 from GlobalRxStore.com and had them shipped through Oberlin Medical Supply of San Diego. The drugs ordered by the practice were determined to be foreign versions of these drugs and were not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in the United States. 
 
 According to sentencing documents filed with the court, this case came to light in May 2011, when federal agents visited Oberlin Medical Supply's offices in San Diego. Maher Idriss, (charged in Criminal Case No. 12cr1775-WQH) the owner of Oberlin Medical Supply, had been working in conjunction with Martin Bean (charged in Criminal Case No. 12cr3734-WQH) and others of GlobalRxStore.com (GlobalRx) to supply foreign oncology drugs to doctors throughout the United States. At Oberlin, the agents discovered numerous boxes of oncology drugs that bore labeling indicating that the products had been manufactured outside of the United States and were not approved for use in this country. 
 
 The medical practice provided agents with a copy of a label for boxes of Gemzar received from GlobalRx. The labeling indicated that the product was manufactured by Eli Lilly in Fegershaim, France. The labeling was partially in English and partially in Turkish. The labels did not bear the words "Rx only" as required by the FDA and did not bear the National Drug Code (NDC) numbers used for Medicare billing in this country. Moreover, the labels were different in color from the FDA-approved labeling for the U.S. product. 
 
 The medical practice later provided to the government one of the vials of drugs that was in the box. When tested, the vial was found to have the active ingredient used in the manufacture of Gemzar. However, without such testing there is no assurance that other foreign drugs purchased by the defendant (outside of the closed chain system established by the FDA to protect patients in this country) all contain the active ingredient. Just recently, in February, 2013, the FDA warned doctors about batches of counterfeit Avastin (an oncology drug) that had been sold to U.S. doctors that did not contain any of the active ingredients, the third such incident in several months. 
 
 Defendant in Criminal Case No. 13cr3316-KSC 
 
 Jan C. Seski, M.D. & Associates, P.C. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 
 
 Date of Incorporation: 1973 
 
 Summary of Charges 
 
 Introduction into interstate commerce of an unapproved drug, a misdemeanor, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 331(d), 333(a)(1) and 355(a) 
 
 Agencies 
 
 Food and Drug Administration-Office of Criminal Investigations 
 
 Federal Bureau of Investigation ||||| HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Now there are two: Zimbabwe accused a Pennsylvania doctor on Sunday of illegally killing a lion in April, adding to the outcry over a Minnesota dentist the African government wants to extradite for killing a well-known lion named Cecil in early July. 
 
 Kristen Hall leads a group of protestors from Animal Rights Coalition and Minnesota Animal Liberation gathered in front of Dr. Walter Palmer's dental practice, Wednesday, July 29, 2015, in Bloomington,... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - In this image takem from a November 2012 video made available by Paula French, a well-known, protected lion known as Cecil strolls around in Hwange National Park, in Hwange, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe's... (Associated Press) 
 
 Protestors leave signs and stuffed animals in front of Dr. Walter Palmer's dental practice, Wednesday, July 29, 2015, in Bloomington, Minn. Palmer has been under fire since his involvement in the death... (Associated Press) 
 
 A gate blocks the driveway where an outbuilding is visible on the property of Dr. Jan Casimir Seski in Murrysville, Pa., on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015. Zimbabwe's National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority... (Associated Press) 
 
 A gate blocks the driveway where an outbuilding is visible on the property of Dr. Jan Casimir Seski in Murrysville, Pa., on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015. Zimbabwe's National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority... (Associated Press) 
 
 No trespassing sign is posted on a tree on the property near the home of Dr. Jan Casimir Seski, in Murrysville, Pa., on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015. Zimbabwe's National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority... (Associated Press) 
 
 Road signs are placed on the edge of the road leading to the home of Dr. Jan Casimir Seski in Murrysville, Pa., on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015. Zimbabwe's National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority accused... (Associated Press) 
 
 Zimbabwe's National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority accused Jan Casimir Seski of Murrysville, Pennsylvania, of shooting the lion with a bow and arrow in April near Hwange National Park, without approval, on land where it was not allowed. 
 
 Landowner Headman Sibanda was arrested and is assisting police, it said. 
 
 Seski is a gynecological oncologist who directs the Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. 
 
 He's also an active big-game hunter, according to safari outfitters and bow-hunting sites where kill shots identify "Dr. Jan Seski" as the man standing next to slain animals including elephants, a hippo, an ostrich and antelopes such as an impala, a kudu, and a nyala. 
 
 The Associated Press called and knocked on the door at Seski's home, which is set back among some woods outside Pittsburgh. The AP also left a message with an answering service for his medical practice, with no immediate response. 
 
 One image on the Melorani Safaris Facebook page, since taken down, showed Seski posing with the body of a small antelope in 2012, with a caption saying it was killed two days after he shot it with an arrow. Other captions described how his arrows penetrated organs and split bones. 
 
 "This Zimbabwe elephant is the sixth African elephant shot by Dr. Jan Seski," Alaska Bowhunting Supply claims in a caption dated September 2014, below a picture of the doctor posing above the dead beast's trunk and tusks. 
 
 "The arrow was shot quartering into the elephant, penetrated a rib and one lung, lacerated the heart and liver, and was recovered in the gut. The elephant went a short distance and died. With results like this, no wonder Jan is a firm supporter of our Ultra-Magnum Arrow System." 
 
 Alaska Bowhunting Supply didn't immediately respond Sunday to a request for comment, and it wasn't clear how the hunting supply company learned such details about the hunt. 
 
 Images of the doctor wearing camouflage and holding high-powered bows match those on Seski's website, where he wears a suit or hospital scrubs. His address and other identifying information given by authorities in Zimbabwe matches those of U.S. medical authorities. 
 
 A handful of Seski's neighbors said he mostly keeps to himself and that he'd been buying up the land around his property. Ernest Hahn said Seski put up no-trespassing signs, breaking the rural area's tradition of people feeling free to cross property lines to hunt. 
 
 Hahn said Seski can be "quirky," walking around wearing a low-slung pistol "like a gunslinger," for example, but he appreciates that his neighbor is protecting land from development. 
 
 "It seemed to me everything he does is aboveboard," Hahn said. "I've never seen him done anything illegal or unsportsmanlike at all." 
 
 Seski provided his name and other identifying information for a government database when he came for the hunt, Zimbabwe National Parks spokeswoman Caroline Washaya Moyo said. 
 
 "When hunters come into the country they fill a document stating their personal details, the amount they have paid for the hunt, the number of animals to be hunted, the species to be hunted and the area and period where that hunt is supposed to take place," she said. "The American conducted his hunt in an area where lion hunting is outlawed. The landowner who helped him with the hunt also did not have a have a quota for lion hunting." 
 
 Seski seemed like a "perfect gentleman" to Stewart Dorrington, who operates Melorani Safaris and owns a game reserve in neighboring South Africa where Seski hunted in 2012. 
 
 "He was a great guy," Dorrington said. "Everything he did was perfectly legal and aboveboard and a great help to our conservation efforts." 
 
 Dorrington said he converted his cattle ranch into a game reserve in the 1980s. He said funds from trophy hunting of antelope are essential to conserving wildlife. 
 
 Dorrington said he received an abusive phone call Sunday; his Facebook page was later closed from view after people began posting threatening comments. 
 
 Two other illegal lion hunts also were recorded last year in Zimbabwe, said Geoffrey Matipano, conservation director for the wildlife authority. He did not provide details on those cases. 
 
 Zimbabwean authorities have said they will seek the extradition of Minnesota dentist Walter James Palmer, alleging he lacked authorization to kill "Cecil." The lion was lured out of Hwange park, wounded with a bow and arrow and then tracked down and shot, conservationists said. 
 
 Palmer said he relied on professional guides to ensure his hunt was legal. Two Zimbabwean citizens were arrested and face charges. 
 
 Zimbabwe's wildlife authority has suspended the hunting of lions, leopards and elephants in the Hwange area, and said Saturday that bow and arrow hunts can be approved by only by the head of the wildlife authority. 
 
 In Washington, meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., announced the "Conserving Ecosystems by Ceasing the Importation of Large (CECIL) Animal Trophies Act," which would expand import bans to species proposed for listing as threatened or endangered, as well as those already listed as endangered. 
 
 "The logic is that if you keep killing them, they will become endangered," Menendez spokesman Steven Sandberg said Sunday. 
 
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 ||||| The world's most-hated dentist has some company. 
 
 Pittsburgh doctor Jan Seski is accused of killing a lion during an illegal hunt with a bow and arrow near Zimbabwe’s protected Hwange National Park in April, the African nation’s government said Sunday. 
 
 Seski, 68, is a gynecologic oncologist and surgeon with a private practice. 
 
 A Zimbabwean landowner, Headman Sibanda, was also arrested and is assisting police with their investigation of the doctor, the National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority said. 
 
 Sibanda is facing charges for hunting without a permit at his Railway Farm 31. He also is the owner of Nyala Safaris, which allegedly guided Seski. 
 
 Seski is the second American doctor who has been named in an illegal lion hunt. Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer created an international outcry when he killed a beloved lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe last month. 
 
 ZIMBABWE OFFICIALS BAN HUNTING OF LIONS, LEOPARDS AND ELEPHANTS 
 
 On Sunday, one of Seski’s neighbors said the doctor once threatened to kill his Australian shepherd pups after they ran onto his sprawling property set back among woods outside Pittsburgh and dotted with “no hunting” signs. 
 
 “He brought them back with his caretaker,” recalled neighbor Ernie Hahn. “He doesn’t go anywhere by himself. And he told me, ‘You know, I could have shot them.’” 
 
 Seski's neighbor Enie Hahn claims the doctor threatened to kill his dogs after they ran onto his property. (Marcus Santos/New York Daily News) 
 
 Hahn, 67, said he tried to avoid talking with the socially awkward doctor. 
 
 “He’s rich and he owns all this,” Hahn said. “He’s real private. He buys people like us. You don’t want to cross him.” 
 
 Pictures on social media show Seski, who has a hunting license in Alaska, is an active hunter. 
 
 A 2012 post from Melorani Safaris’ Facebook page indicated Seski went on a 10-day hunt and “harvested some very nice animals,” including a nyala, a type of antelope, and a giraffe. 
 
 “Congratulations to Jan on a very succesfull (sic) hunt!!” the post read. 
 
 One photo shows the doctor posing with the body of a small antelope; a caption says it was killed two days after he shot it with an arrow. 
 
 Other captions described how his arrows penetrated organs and split bones. 
 
 “This Zimbabwe elephant is the sixth African elephant shot by Dr. Jan Seski,” Alaska Bowhunting Supply claims in a caption dated September 2014, below a picture of the doctor posing above the dead beast’s trunk and tusks. 
 
 Seski operates a gynecologic oncology practice in Pittsburgh, Pa. (Xodus Medical via Vimeo) 
 
 “The arrow was shot quartering into the elephant, penetrated a rib and one lung, lacerated the heart and liver, and was recovered in the gut,” the caption reads. “The elephant went a short distance and died. With results like this, no wonder Jan is a firm supporter of our Ultra-Magnum Arrow System.” 
 
 Despised doctors Seski and Palmer are not alone in their hunting ways. 
 
 Hunters have exported the head and hide of an estimated 665 wild lions from Africa each year, according to reports. 
 
 Seski is a suspect in an illegal lion hunt in April in Zimbabwe. (Melorani Safaris via Facebook) 
 
 This Zimbabwe elephant is the sixth African elephant shot by Dr. Jan Seski. For this hunt Jan used our custom-built... Posted by GrizzlyStik on Monday, September 15, 2014 
 
 In addition, hunters took down between 15 to 20 rhinos in Zimbabwe last year. 
 
 In Pittsburgh, Seski directs the Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery at the Allegheny General Hospital. 
 
 “We have no comment at this time on this matter related to Dr. Seski,” said hospital spokesman Dan Laurent, who noted the doctor is an “independent, private-practice physician who has attending privileges at several of our hospitals.” 
 
 In 2013, Seski’s practice pleaded guilty to a criminal charge of ordering unapproved cancer drugs and was ordered to pay a $100,000 fine, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of California. 
 
 The practice admitted to ordering $973,795 worth of foreign versions of oncology drugs between Dec. 4, 2008, and May 25, 2011, that were not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in the U.S. 
 
 Palmer has gone into hiding and is facing extradition to Zimbabwe to face charges of financing an illegal hunt. 
 
 The dentist has said he relied on his local guides to ensure his hunt was legal. 
 
 Online commenters were quick to vilify the latest trophy-hunting doctor. 
 
 “Another ‘person’ who is trained to preserve life, yet takes pleasure in paying to kill,” Elizabeth Stahlmann wrote on Seski’s office Facebook page. 
 
 “If you want to fund Dr. Seski’s illegal hunts and you approve of him giving his patients illegal drugs that are not FDA approved by all means go see him,” added Andrea Hansen. 
 
 Others were more direct, calling him “killer,” “scum” and “sociopath.” 
 
 Not everyone was upset by the doctor’s macabre hobby. 
 
 “We are very recent patients of his, he is a fantastic surgeon and amazing clinician,” said Nihar Ghate in an email to the Daily News. “I feel sorry for those so quick to judge such a great doctor.” 
 
 Seski also appears to have gone into hiding. 
 
 Messages left for the doctor were not returned Sunday. 
 
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– Not again: Another American has been accused of illegally hunting wildlife in Zimbabwe. Officials there say in a press release that Jan Casmir Sieski of Murrysville, Pa., joined a hunt in April near Hwange National Park, where an American dentist recently coaxed out and killed a famous lion. The New York Times finds no Jan Casmir Sieski on record, but spotted a Jan Casimir Seski running a gynecological oncologist practice in Pittsburgh. The AP knocked on his door in a wooded area near Pittsburgh, and called his practice, but hasn't heard back. Meanwhile, pictures on social media (now removed) show the 68-year-old posing with wildlife he apparently killed in Africa, including antelope and elephants. The AP says he's specifically accused of illegal lion-hunting. Seski's neighbors describe him as mostly a loner. One says he's "quirky" and carries a low-slung handgun "like a gunslinger," but adds that "I've never seen him done anything illegal or unsportsmanlike at all." Turns out Seski pleaded guilty to allowing $973,795 in unapproved, foreign oncology drugs into the US between 2008 and 2011, the Daily News reports. According to an official document, he was ordered to pay a $100,000 fine. He's also seen as a trailblazer in bloodless surgery. Now Zimbabwe officials have arrested the farm owner who allegedly conducted the April hunt, and stopped all hunting of elephants, leopards, and lions outside Hwange National Park.