Tab Man?

I stuck my nose in that issue/debate about the letro. I've known that member for years and he certainly knows what he's talking about. Thing is, these days, testing is what it's all about and without it, depending on who you are, your argument could be stopped in its tracks.
@DragonFlames , you must've missed the test results? joebig & IM sent tabmans halo to esctasydata(or whatever it is?) and the results were posted on that site and then posted in tm thread. No active ingrediants, period. Tabman took the offensive which was the wrong move to make.
I made one of my all encompassing power posts that summed up everything in a neat pkg. TM showed some silly test report sent over by the chinaman he gets his raws from that claimed 98% and was laughed off the board for the day.
To his credit he is replacing halo with a new and improved batch. Time will tell. He isn't shaping up to be the answer to the tab shortage he claimed he was gonna be.
I went after him a bit when he first got there about posting that his shit was pharma grade and he felt made them so....no real answer. The jury is still out on this one.

I saw it bro. I figured something like that would happen too. So many nut huggers come out of nowhere for new sources before they even have time to be adequately vetted.
 
Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office
District of Rhode Island
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, August 18, 2017
Former Police Officer Pleads Guilty to Trafficking Steroids, Money Laundering

PROVIDENCE – Evan Speck, 34, of Westerly, R.I., a former Charlestown, R.I., police officer, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence today to charges that he trafficked steroids and laundered the proceeds from his sales.

Appearing before U.S. District Court Chief Judge William E. Smith, Speck pleaded guilty to an information charging him with possession with the intent to distribute steroids, distribution of a misbranded drug, and money laundering.

Speck’s guilty plea is announced by Acting United States Attorney Stephen G. Dambruch; Jeffrey Ebersole, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations; Joel P. Garland, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation; Shelly A. Binkowski, Inspector in Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Boston Division; and Matthew J. Etre, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations for New England.

According to information presented to the Court, on March 20, 2017, federal investigators executed a court-authorized search of Speck’s residence, and encountered items associated with the receipt, packaging and resale of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. The residence also contained numerous labels containing the name under which he sold steroids, TabMan Pharmaceuticals.

Investigators also seized various false identification documents, ledgers, and cash. The ledgers show that from approximately June 2015 to the date of the search, Speck received $536,000 from the sale of steroids and other drugs. Investigators also seized two firearms from Speck’s residence, and a loaded firearm found stashed in his vehicle.

According to information presented to the Court, Speck had been ordering Testosterone Cipionate from China since at least the beginning of 2015, repackaging the drug and selling it to his customers. At no time either upon receipt by the defendant nor after repackaging it under the name “TabMan Pharmaceuticals” did the testosterone contain labeling specifying directions for its use.

Speck conducted his drug transactions through third party, member only, and web based steroid boards to connect with potential customers. He communicated with his customers, many of whom were professional and amateur bodybuilders, and distributors of raw products utilizing encrypted emails and varying email addresses. He utilized text message software that would eliminate texts after they were read.

To conceal the movement of funds, Speck utilized various money remittance services, utilizing false names to conceal his identity as both the sender and recipient of tainted funds. Speck, his customers and distributors of raw product, utilized regularly changing intermediary nominees, domestically and abroad, to receive money remittances.

The defendant also used crypto-cyber currency, Bitcoin, to conceal both the purchase and sales of products.

According to court documents, Speck will forfeit to the government the three firearms and a total of $17,954 in cash seized during the court authorized search of his home; and will, based on his narcotics trafficking, as charged in the information, forfeit a sum of money equal to the total value of forfeitable assets, in the amount of $536,000.

Additionally, the government and Speck have agreed that for the purpose of calculating the appropriate sentencing guideline range, the defendant possessed a dangerous weapon in connection with drug trafficking and the defendant distributed an anabolic steroid to an athlete.

Speck is scheduled to be sentenced on November 3, 2017 by U.S. District Court Chief Judge William E. Smith.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Dulce Donovan and Mary E. Rogers, with the assistance of Assistant U.S. Attorney John P. McAdams.

The matter was investigated by the Rhode Island FDA Office of Criminal Investigations task force, IRS Criminal Investigation, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and Homeland Security Investigations.

The Rhode Island FDA Office of Criminal Investigations task force is comprised of agents and officers from the FDA, IRS, DEA, HSI, Rhode Island State Police and the East Providence, North Providence and Westerly Police Departments.
 

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Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office
District of Rhode Island
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, August 18, 2017
Former Police Officer Pleads Guilty to Trafficking Steroids, Money Laundering

PROVIDENCE – Evan Speck, 34, of Westerly, R.I., a former Charlestown, R.I., police officer, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence today to charges that he trafficked steroids and laundered the proceeds from his sales.

Appearing before U.S. District Court Chief Judge William E. Smith, Speck pleaded guilty to an information charging him with possession with the intent to distribute steroids, distribution of a misbranded drug, and money laundering.

Speck’s guilty plea is announced by Acting United States Attorney Stephen G. Dambruch; Jeffrey Ebersole, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations; Joel P. Garland, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation; Shelly A. Binkowski, Inspector in Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Boston Division; and Matthew J. Etre, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations for New England.

According to information presented to the Court, on March 20, 2017, federal investigators executed a court-authorized search of Speck’s residence, and encountered items associated with the receipt, packaging and resale of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. The residence also contained numerous labels containing the name under which he sold steroids, TabMan Pharmaceuticals.

Investigators also seized various false identification documents, ledgers, and cash. The ledgers show that from approximately June 2015 to the date of the search, Speck received $536,000 from the sale of steroids and other drugs. Investigators also seized two firearms from Speck’s residence, and a loaded firearm found stashed in his vehicle.

According to information presented to the Court, Speck had been ordering Testosterone Cipionate from China since at least the beginning of 2015, repackaging the drug and selling it to his customers. At no time either upon receipt by the defendant nor after repackaging it under the name “TabMan Pharmaceuticals” did the testosterone contain labeling specifying directions for its use.

Speck conducted his drug transactions through third party, member only, and web based steroid boards to connect with potential customers. He communicated with his customers, many of whom were professional and amateur bodybuilders, and distributors of raw products utilizing encrypted emails and varying email addresses. He utilized text message software that would eliminate texts after they were read.

To conceal the movement of funds, Speck utilized various money remittance services, utilizing false names to conceal his identity as both the sender and recipient of tainted funds. Speck, his customers and distributors of raw product, utilized regularly changing intermediary nominees, domestically and abroad, to receive money remittances.

The defendant also used crypto-cyber currency, Bitcoin, to conceal both the purchase and sales of products.

According to court documents, Speck will forfeit to the government the three firearms and a total of $17,954 in cash seized during the court authorized search of his home; and will, based on his narcotics trafficking, as charged in the information, forfeit a sum of money equal to the total value of forfeitable assets, in the amount of $536,000.

Additionally, the government and Speck have agreed that for the purpose of calculating the appropriate sentencing guideline range, the defendant possessed a dangerous weapon in connection with drug trafficking and the defendant distributed an anabolic steroid to an athlete.

Speck is scheduled to be sentenced on November 3, 2017 by U.S. District Court Chief Judge William E. Smith.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Dulce Donovan and Mary E. Rogers, with the assistance of Assistant U.S. Attorney John P. McAdams.

The matter was investigated by the Rhode Island FDA Office of Criminal Investigations task force, IRS Criminal Investigation, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and Homeland Security Investigations.

The Rhode Island FDA Office of Criminal Investigations task force is comprised of agents and officers from the FDA, IRS, DEA, HSI, Rhode Island State Police and the East Providence, North Providence and Westerly Police Departments.

Wow...

Frank
 
Federal judge sentenced former Charlestown Police officer Evan Speck (TabMan Pharma) to 3 years probation (including first 18-months home confinement + first 12-months weekend incarceration).

Prosecutors request high end of sentencing guidelines at 57-months to "send the message that law enforcement officers who break the law are as deserving, if not more, of punishment compared to ordinary citizens who commit criminal acts".

Speck's sentence was essentially what his attorneys requested (with addition of weekend incarceration for the first 12-months).

Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office
District of Rhode Island

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Former Police Officer Sentenced for Trafficking Steroids, Money Laundering


PROVIDENCE – A former Charlestown, RI police officer was sentenced today to 3 years probation and 1,000 hours of community service for importing, repackaging and selling pharmaceuticals from China and elsewhere, and employing elaborate schemes to hide more than $530,000 in proceeds he netted from the sale of the steroids.

At sentencing, U.S. District Court Chief Judge William E. Smith ordered Evan C. Speck, 35, of Westerly, R.I., to serve the first 18 months of his probationary sentence on home confinement with electronic monitoring – the first 12 months of which he ordered Speck incarcerated on weekends at the Wyatt Detention Center in Central Falls.

Additionally, Speck was ordered to purchase an advertisement in the Westerly Sun to publish a letter of apology to the community for his criminal conduct and to send a similar letter to each member of the Charlestown Police Department. The letters must first be approved by the Court. Speck will also forfeit $536,000 in forfeitable assets, an amount equal to the total value Speck received from the sale of steroids and other drugs.

The U.S. Sentencing Guidelines range of imprisonment in this matter is 46-57 months. The government recommended the court impose a sentence of 57 months incarceration.

Speck pleaded guilty on November 7, 2017, to possession with the intent to distribute steroids, distribution of a misbranded drug and money laundering.

Speck’s sentence is announced by Acting United States Attorney Stephen G. Dambruch; Jeffrey Ebersole, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations; Joel P. Garland, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation; Shelly A. Binkowski, Inspector in Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Boston Division; and Michael S. Shea, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations for New England.

According to information presented to the Court, Speck had been ordering Testosterone Cipionate from China since at least the beginning of 2015, repackaging the drug and selling it to his customers under the name “TabMan Pharmaceuticals.” Speck connected with potential customers through third-party, member only web-based steroid boards. He communicated with distributors of raw products and with his customers, many of whom were professional and amateur bodybuilders, utilizing encrypted emails and varying email addresses, and through text message software that would eliminate texts after they were read.

To conceal the movement of funds, Speck utilized various money remittance services, utilizing false names to conceal his identity as both the sender and recipient of tainted funds. Speck, his distributors of raw product and his customers utilized regularly changing intermediary nominees, domestically and abroad, to facilitate money remittances. The defendant also used crypto-cyber currency, Bitcoin, to conceal both the purchase and sales of products.

On March 20, 2017, federal law enforcement agents executed a court-authorized search of Speck’s residence and seized items associated with the receipt, packaging and resale of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. Agents also seized labels containing the name under which Speck sold steroids, TabMan Pharmaceuticals.

Additionally, agents seized various false identification documents, ledgers, and cash. The ledgers show that from approximately June 2015 to the date of the search, Speck received $536,000 from the sale of steroids and other drugs. Investigators also seized two firearms from Speck’s residence and a loaded firearm found stashed in his vehicle.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Dulce Donovan and Mary E. Rogers, with the assistance of Assistant U.S. Attorney John P. McAdams.

The matter was investigated by the Rhode Island FDA Office of Criminal Investigations task force, IRS Criminal Investigation, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and Homeland Security Investigations.

The Rhode Island FDA Office of Criminal Investigations task force is comprised of agents and officers from the FDA, IRS, DEA, HSI, Rhode Island State Police and the East Providence, North Providence and Westerly Police Departments.

Source: Former Police Officer Sentenced for Trafficking Steroids, Money Laundering
 
This is the argument that the judge rejected...
Federal prosecutors ask for 57-months arguing that:

"There is no greater violation of public trust than when a police officer violates the law" and;

"Any sentence in this case must be one that will aid in the restoration of public confidence in law enforcement that the defendant’s conduct has eroded" and;

"A sentence at the high end of the guideline range will send the message that law enforcement officers who break the law are as deserving, if not more, of punishment compared to ordinary citizens who commit criminal acts. Anything less will have a reduced deterrent effect on other individuals facing the same temptation as the defendant to engage in illegal conduct to enrich themselves."

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Speck's attorney convinced judge probation was appropriate arguing that:

"This defendant also cooperated by meeting with law enforcement officials on multiple occasions to explain his criminal wrongdoing to the government. The cooperation provided by Speck is not the type of cooperation one normally thinks of when a defendant cooperates with the government in the prosecution of other persons in exchange for a more lenient sentence. Instead, the cooperation was mainly focused on disclosing the inside details of Speck’s crimes (self-incriminating cooperation).10 Defendant’s cooperation law enforcement that other cash and contraband the initial search of defendant’s home."

"The court can look at defendant’s career as a law enforcement officer in two different and stark ways. One, the court can penalize Speck (the police officer) for having committed the crimes—although those criminal transgressions were not connected to or committed in his capacity as an officer. At the opposite spectrum, the court can consider Speck’s educational and personal life experiences as a police officer and conclude that this is not someone who is need of rehabilitation as many defendants who come before this Court desperately require. By all accounts, Speck was a hard working police officer and law abiding person who fulfilled his job and life duties for most of his adult life before going down the wrong path of using and selling anabolic steroids.

"Speck was entrusted with the uniform and badge for most of his adult life. While breaking the law is not becoming of an officer (which is why defendant immediately resigned after the execution of the search warrant), there is no evidence that Speck commingled his criminal conduct in anabolic steroids with his life as a police officer."

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Evan Speck interview with local NBC affiliate:

Speck says he's thankful for lenient sentence that didn't ruin his life. But then he goes on to complain how home incarceration + weekend incarceration is worse than full incarceration:

"Thank God Judge Smith gave me another chance. He could have just locked me up. That would only ruin the course of my life...

"It’s going to be rough. I’ll be locked down 23 out of 24 hours in a room by myself so it’s not socializing with other prisoners. Time will go slow. I work all week, I go to school and I’m locked down on weekends… I don’t get a day off for a year –that’s the punishment.

"I had plenty of people contact me to say I rather be locked up for an entire year in general population because people hang out, talk than be locked down …. locked in a box."

Speck rejected claims that he received special treatment from the judge because he was a cop. Instead, he says the judge gave him a "harder" sentence because he was a cop:

"People say you only got a break because you are a cop. No, if anything, I got it harder. Sentence may not look like it. "

Speck says his steroid operation was invulnerable to being busted because of the precautions he took. There was no way he could get caught. He worked narcotics and used his law enforcement experience to avoid detection.

SPECK: "I took steps so I would never get caught. There was no way you could trace anything back to me. My name wasn’t on anything. I never did hand-to-hand transactions. Maybe I kind of used that in a sense, I used to work narcotics so I know how everything works. I knew how to back door everything. I was shocked and said, ‘how did this happen’?"
Ironically, he blames corrupt cops using "creative writing" to get warrants as vengeance for a lawsuit he filed. (Speck filed a disability lawsuit because the police department wouldn't provide benefits when he stopped going to work -- and secretly started selling steroids as Tabman Pharma -- due to his disabilities of ADHD and PTSD).

DAVIS: What was it that allowed them to link you to the drugs.

SPECK: "They say eBay."

RESENDE: Do you want to elaborate on that? Were there any missteps?

SPECK: "It was creative report writing 101. There was never anything that was purchased illegal. I think it had something to do with the lawsuit (Speck had sued Charlestown and the police department claiming he was discriminated against because he has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)."

DAVIS: You feel there was retribution?

SPECK: "Yeah. It’s easy for us to pull a subpoena on anyone. I could call right now and say I have information. The federal government they do have a lot of power, so – got me."

Source: NBC 10 I-Team Exclusive: Former cop, felon shares details of crimes
 
Evan Speck interview with local NBC affiliate:

Speck says he's thankful for lenient sentence that didn't ruin his life. But then he goes on to complain how home incarceration + weekend incarceration is worse than full incarceration:

"Thank God Judge Smith gave me another chance. He could have just locked me up. That would only ruin the course of my life...

"It’s going to be rough. I’ll be locked down 23 out of 24 hours in a room by myself so it’s not socializing with other prisoners. Time will go slow. I work all week, I go to school and I’m locked down on weekends… I don’t get a day off for a year –that’s the punishment.

"I had plenty of people contact me to say I rather be locked up for an entire year in general population because people hang out, talk than be locked down …. locked in a box."

Speck rejected claims that he received special treatment from the judge because he was a cop. Instead, he says the judge gave him a "harder" sentence because he was a cop:

"People say you only got a break because you are a cop. No, if anything, I got it harder. Sentence may not look like it. "

Speck says his steroid operation was invulnerable to being busted because of the precautions he took. There was no way he could get caught. He worked narcotics and used his law enforcement experience to avoid detection.

SPECK: "I took steps so I would never get caught. There was no way you could trace anything back to me. My name wasn’t on anything. I never did hand-to-hand transactions. Maybe I kind of used that in a sense, I used to work narcotics so I know how everything works. I knew how to back door everything. I was shocked and said, ‘how did this happen’?"
Ironically, he blames corrupt cops using "creative writing" to get warrants as vengeance for a lawsuit he filed. (Speck filed a disability lawsuit because the police department wouldn't provide benefits when he stopped going to work -- and secretly started selling steroids as Tabman Pharma -- due to his disabilities of ADHD and PTSD).

DAVIS: What was it that allowed them to link you to the drugs.

SPECK: "They say eBay."

RESENDE: Do you want to elaborate on that? Were there any missteps?

SPECK: "It was creative report writing 101. There was never anything that was purchased illegal. I think it had something to do with the lawsuit (Speck had sued Charlestown and the police department claiming he was discriminated against because he has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)."

DAVIS: You feel there was retribution?

SPECK: "Yeah. It’s easy for us to pull a subpoena on anyone. I could call right now and say I have information. The federal government they do have a lot of power, so – got me."

Source: NBC 10 I-Team Exclusive: Former cop, felon shares details of crimes

He definitely received special treatment.

Frank
 
@Millard Baker always giving us the upclose and in your face truth. Thank you sir for the find. Tabman made some serious coin. Even the most savvy get popped. What a insane read. Shocking esp at the sentence also!
 
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