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[Definitie:] "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance."
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1 3 - 0 7 - 2 0 0 7 NJ man agrees to plead guilty in steroid scheme
By ERIN CONROY PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A pharmaceutical company owner accused of marketing and distributing illegally prescribed anabolic steroids and human growth hormone has agreed to plead guilty to 50 counts, including conspiracy, health care fraud and money laundering. Daniel McGlone of North Brunswick, N.J., who owns New Jersey-based American Pharmaceutical Group, agreed to a plea deal in federal court this month according to court documents. He is accused of illegally distributing human growth hormone and steroids to body builders in several states, and allegedly got some of the drugs from a Florida-based pharmaceutical company charged by New York authorities in a larger steroid case. McGlone's attorney declined to comment except to confirm that the plea agreement had been filed in federal court. Prosecutors say McGlone advertised in bodybuilder publications and recommended the drugs for anti-aging and weight-loss purposes. Federal law restricts the use or distribution of human growth hormone to specified medical uses, such as wasting disease associated with AIDS. McGlone took orders over the phone and, prosecutors say, paid two New York doctors to write prescriptions for the drugs even though they never met or examined the patients. Prosecutors say he made more than $860,000 through the scheme between April 2004 and August 2006. Authorities seized more than $125,000 and two Dodge Vipers from McGlone, according to federal court documents. McGlone sent the prescriptions to pharmacies including Orlando, Fla.-based Signature Pharmacy, according to prosecutors. The company is not charged in the Rhode Island case. One of the doctors in the scheme, Victor Mariani, pleaded guilty in March to conspiracy and illegal drug distribution charges. The other doctor, Ana Maria Santi, who was stripped of her New York medical license in 1999, was scheduled to appear in court Friday. She had initially agreed to plead guilty, then declined to do so at a court hearing last month, claiming she had permission to forge the signature of a doctor living in a California nursing home. Prosecutors said McGlone faces at least three years and 10 months in prison.
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