Chemistry Professor Avoids Jail for Illegal Lab Testing Service But Still Loses His Job
The former director of the Mass Spectrometry Center at Auburn University has been able to avoid jail time after he was positively linked to an underground laboratory in the United States responsible for the production and manufacturing of illegal anabolic steroids.
One of the largest scandals to hit this prestigious university, Dr. Shunyong “Yonnie” Wu was considered by many of his peers to be one of the most brilliant doctors and scientists in the department, a kind of man, a quiet man, and not the type of person to be involved in these kinds of illegal activities.
It’s likely that these kinds of comments to the investigators during the investigation were enough to sway the district attorney and prosecutors from really pushing to send this man away to prison, but it wasn’t enough to save him from losing his job at the university.
“This was one of the most sophisticated steroid underground laboratories (UGLs) in the US”
According to investigators (spent almost a year looking into the activities of Dr. Wu and his accomplices), the underground laboratory that the doctor had set up and was responsible for conducting was one of the most sophisticated in the United States and designed to do one thing and one thing only – to produce high-quality anabolic steroids inside the United States so that they do not have to be imported.
A significant amount of the illegal steroids that you were going to find in the country today come from these kinds of underground laboratories, as more and more sophisticated groups shy away from all the trouble that comes from importing these drugs through customs.
Since 9/11 these dealers and syndicates have gotten a lot savvier about importing of illicit and illegal drugs (including steroids), and many of them are turning to prestigious individuals in the academic world to set up their laboratories for them.
Dr. Wu threw away a promising career in the process
As mentioned above, the good doctor enjoyed a fabulous reputation at the Auburn University department that he worked in the – and all of that was thrown right down the tubes when he decided to put his lot in with these illicit drug dealers.
The man had a job world degree, had prolifically published in scientific and academic journals, and was a master of analytical chemistry and mammalian cell biology. These prestigious qualities likely worthy details that attracted the illicit drug dealers to the man in the first place, and it’s likely that they provided him with tremendous financial backing and significant financial awards to help them set up their underground drug production laboratory.
According to information published at the conclusion of this trial, Wu was given a sentence of two years’ probation and ordered to pay a $5000 fine. This is over there by all accounts) tantamount to a slap on the wrist, considering the fact that he was facing significant jail time and at least a $100,000 fine after he played guilty to the charges against him.
Incredibly, the doctor could have completely avoided detection entirely (thanks in large part to the sophistication of the set up and the operation), but a chance encounter with a USPS postal inspector that was in on the operation and law enforcement led to the postal inspector turning informant on the operation – and that’s how the entire ball of string came unraveled!
The DEA asserts that even though this was a significant coup against the illicit steroid trade there are more underground laboratories popping up daily, and the war on drugs continues in the United States. These kinds of cases will be more mainstream and more frequent in the future, that’s for sure!
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So it means he fully synthetized steroids in a lab? (not only a homebrewer?)
If so he's the real steroids Breaking Bad and that deserves a TV series!
But it looks to me like he only tested roids