College Pharmacy to forfeit $3.5 million in growth hormone case

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College Pharmacy to forfeit $3.5 million in growth hormone case
[SIZE=-1]Colorado Springs Gazette, CO [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The pharmacy's former owner, Thomas Bader, and former employees Kevin Henry and Bradley Blum were indicted by a federal grand jury in August 2007 on criminal charges they illegally imported banned Chinese human growth hormone, or hGh, and sold it to doctors in four states.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]Bader and Henry are awaiting trials set for April.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]Blum pleaded guilty in March to conspiracy to facilitate the sale of smuggled goods and distributing human growth hormone. He was sentenced this week in federal court in Denver to serve two years of probation, with the first six months to be spent in home confinement. Blum also must pay a $10,000 fine.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]The civil judgment must be paid by the new corporate owners of College Pharmacy because the corporation illegally benefited from the sale of the hormone between October 2005 and February 2007. [...][/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]The pharmacy repackaged the illegal growth hormone to make it appear legal, Dorschner said. Their clients included doctors and children with a legitimate need for the hormone, but also bodybuilders and people wishing to slow the effects of aging, Dorschner said [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]...[/SIZE]



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