“A Stoughton woman has been arrested and charged in connection with smuggling goods into the United States and selling/dispensing counterfeit drugs and devices. Rebecca Fadanelli, 38, was charged by criminal complaint with one count of illegally importing merchandise contrary to law, one count of selling or dispensing a counterfeit drug, and one count of selling or dispensing a counterfeit device. According to the charging documents, since March 2021, Fadanelli, the owner of Skin Beaute Med Spa with locations in Randolph and South Easton, Mass, has been importing counterfeit Botox, Sculptra and Juvederm from China and Brazil and performing thousands of injections of counterfeit drugs and devices for which she received over $900,000 in client payments,” says DOJ statement.

“It is alleged that Fadanelli consistently represented to clients and employees that she is a nurse; in fact, Fadanelli is an aesthetician and is not licensed nor certified to dispense or administer prescription drugs or devices. According to payment records, from approximately March 2021 through March 2024, Fadanelli completed approximately 1,631 Botox appointments, totaling $522,869 in client payments, and 1,085 filler appointments, totaling $410,545 in client payments.”

The whole not properly-licensed thing is easy enough to get on board with. Safety first, second, and third when it comes to such matters. It’s just that it seems like if this woman was able to book and complete the better part of three thousand appointments over three years and this release says nothing about any injuries or disfigurement from it that kind of tells us it’s all way more about the false advertising. We’ll just skip the irony of an apparently otherwise safe but counterfeit version of a real product used to enhance fake lips and wherever the hell else they inject Botox these days.