Man sentenced over fake Viagra

[wombat]

now lets see...2500 hrs divided into 5.8 million = not bad pay for the penalty.

 

 

Man sentenced over fake Viagra

From correspondents in Los Angeles

May 17, 2005

From: Agence France-Presse

 

 

A CALIFORNIA man trafficked $US5.8 million ($7.67 million) in counterfeit pills made to look like the sexual enhancing drug Viagra, a Los Angeles court was told today.

Frank Fu Jen Huang, 59, was sentenced to 2500 hours of community service after pleading guilty earlier this year to charges of conspiracy, trafficking and making fake drugs.

 

 

Prosecutors said Huang and a co-defendant, David Srulevitch, began making fake Viagra in 2002 after it became too difficult to get counterfeit Viagra made in China past US Customs.

 

After their shipments from China were intercepted by customs officers, the pair made about 700,000 counterfeit tablets of the anti-impotence drug in a California laboratory where Srulevitch worked.

 

Srulevitch pleaded guilty in September to selling a counterfeit drug and received a suspended sentence of five years' probation.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15315159-23109,00.html

Edited May 17, 2005 by wombat

[nidnoyham]

A police spokesman said " We don't know what's in them, but they taste like bannana" " We are waiting for further developments "

Edited May 17, 2005 by nidnoyham

[scarface]

He should have got a stiffer sentence