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N.J. drug executive faces steroid charges
Friday, February 23, 2007
By ERIC TUCKER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The owner of a New Brunswick pharmaceutical company and two doctors from New York have been charged in an alleged scheme to illegally prescribe anabolic steroids and human growth hormone to bodybuilders in several states, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Rhode Island said Thursday.
Daniel McGlone, 54, owner of the American Pharmaceutical Group, and Ana Maria Santi, a former doctor already stripped of her license to practice medicine, were charged in an 80-count indictment issued Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Providence. Victor Mariani, a licensed physician with a practice in New York City, was charged separately and has agreed to plead guilty, prosecutors said.
McGlone and Santi face charges of health-care fraud, conspiracy and illegal drug distribution. McGlone, of North Brunswick, faces an additional 51 counts of money laundering. Prosecutors say McGlone obtained $860,810 through the alleged scheme, which ran between April 2004 and August 2006.
Bob Mann, an attorney for McGlone, said Thursday that he was still reviewing the indictment.
"We'll address the issues in court," he said, adding that his client planned to plead not guilty to the charges.
Attorneys for Santi and Mariani did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment.
The use or distribution of human growth hormone is restricted under federal law to specified medical uses, such as wasting disease associated with AIDS. It is not approved for bodybuilding or weight-loss treatments.
Prosecutors say McGlone advertised steroids and human growth hormone in publications geared toward bodybuilders. When customers contacted him, he advised them what substances they could use for bodybuilding, weight-loss and anti-aging purposes, the indictment alleges.
After receiving orders from customers, prosecutors say, McGlone paid Santi and Mariani to write the prescriptions, even though they never met or examined the patients.
New York State revoked Santi's medical license in 1999, and she allegedly forged the signature of a retired doctor who was living in a California nursing home on the prescriptions, according to the indictment.
Friday, February 23, 2007
By ERIC TUCKER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The owner of a New Brunswick pharmaceutical company and two doctors from New York have been charged in an alleged scheme to illegally prescribe anabolic steroids and human growth hormone to bodybuilders in several states, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Rhode Island said Thursday.
Daniel McGlone, 54, owner of the American Pharmaceutical Group, and Ana Maria Santi, a former doctor already stripped of her license to practice medicine, were charged in an 80-count indictment issued Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Providence. Victor Mariani, a licensed physician with a practice in New York City, was charged separately and has agreed to plead guilty, prosecutors said.
McGlone and Santi face charges of health-care fraud, conspiracy and illegal drug distribution. McGlone, of North Brunswick, faces an additional 51 counts of money laundering. Prosecutors say McGlone obtained $860,810 through the alleged scheme, which ran between April 2004 and August 2006.
Bob Mann, an attorney for McGlone, said Thursday that he was still reviewing the indictment.
"We'll address the issues in court," he said, adding that his client planned to plead not guilty to the charges.
Attorneys for Santi and Mariani did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment.
The use or distribution of human growth hormone is restricted under federal law to specified medical uses, such as wasting disease associated with AIDS. It is not approved for bodybuilding or weight-loss treatments.
Prosecutors say McGlone advertised steroids and human growth hormone in publications geared toward bodybuilders. When customers contacted him, he advised them what substances they could use for bodybuilding, weight-loss and anti-aging purposes, the indictment alleges.
After receiving orders from customers, prosecutors say, McGlone paid Santi and Mariani to write the prescriptions, even though they never met or examined the patients.
New York State revoked Santi's medical license in 1999, and she allegedly forged the signature of a retired doctor who was living in a California nursing home on the prescriptions, according to the indictment.
