Federal prosecutors have indicted the owner of a Bellevue salon, who is accused of injecting fake Botox to customers.

In a three-count unsealed indictment last Tuesday, prosecutors accused Faith He of injection bogus Botox and Restylane in her salon, Natural Beauty.
She was arrested along with two other salon operators who were accused in an unrelated bribery case.

Seattlepi.com reports, “State health officials came to believe He, a licensed esthetician and manicurist, had been injecting patients in 2004 after a Snohomish woman reported she'd received a Restylane treatment at the salon, a Justice Department spokeswoman said Tuesday. The woman's face became enflamed, and she later told investigators the patented medicine came from a vial carrying Chinese characters.”

Despite a cease and desist order filed against He in 2006, the salon operator continued the fake injections until at least April 2008.  A client of the salon told authorities that she suffered complications after a treatment from Natural Beauty.

“A Bothell woman had to be treated by a plastic surgeon after the locations [He] had injected became hard and swollen,” claimed a spokeswoman. “Investigators served a search warrant on the Natural Beauty salon … and obtained numerous vials of injectable substances labeled in Chinese characters.”

If she is convicted, He could serve up to three years in prison. She faces a maximum sentence of 15 years together with her other pending cases, which include allegations of shipping unpermitted medical lasers into the United States. 

Source: Seattlepi.com