Xin He, aka Faith He, 46, of Issaquah, was found guilty Friday, Oct. 30 in U.S. District Court in Seattle of a felony count of Misbranding of a Drug While Held for Sale and two misdemeanor counts of Receipt & Proffered Delivery of Adulterated Device.
He was ordered into immediate custody by U.S. District Judge Marsha J. Pechman after she rendered her verdict. Prosecutors presented evidence to Judge Pechman over a three-day bench trial. Friday prosecutors showed Judge Pechman an ad He placed in a Vietnamese language newspaper just days before her trial. The ad falsely claims she is licensed and offers services including one considered a surgical procedure.
As she ordered He into custody Judge Pechman said, “The court cannot trust that she will abide by any rules laid down… She continued to inject people with bogus drugs after she was told to stop…. To advertise right before trial is the height of arrogance.”
According to testimony at trial and records filed in the case, He used counterfeit Botox and Restylane on customers at her Bellevue beauty salon. He was a licensed esthetician and manicurist, but was not a medical doctor licensed to use the injectable treatments for wrinkle removal. According to the indictment, as early as 2004, He injected a substance that she later represented was Restylane into the face of a Snohomish woman. Court records indicate the woman’s face became inflamed and she sought treatment from a dermatologist. The material injected into the woman’s face was confirmed later not to be genuine Restylane.
The Washington State Department of Health investigated and issued a cease and desist order to He in July 2006. The order was issued after He offered to inject an undercover agent with what she claimed was Botox at He’s Issaquah home. Despite that order, in April 2008, He was once again injecting patients in a Bellevue salon. A Bothell woman had to be treated by a plastic surgeon after the locations He had injected became hard and swollen.
When He is sentenced on December 18 she faces up to three years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
