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Supplements distributor sentenced in steroids case
Denver Business Journal
Date: Thursday, January 19, 2012, 5:51pm MST
A federal judge has sentenced a Centennial supplements distributor to a year’s probation, ordered it to forfeit $107,000, and fined it $50,000 for a charge of mail fraud connected to the distribution of steroids, U.S. Attorney for Colorado John Walsh announced Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Wiley Daniel sentenced the company Wednesday. It pleaded guilty to the single count Oct. 13, 2011.
Federal prosecutors accused Axis Labs of mail-order sales in 2008 and 2009 of a muscle-building and weight-loss product called Monster Caps, which the company purported was a dietary supplement that didn’t need to be prescribed by a doctor.
Monster Caps contained undeclared synthetic anabolic steroids and should have been sold like a regulated drug and approved for sale by Food & Drug Administration, investigators alleged.
Axis Labs had faced a fine of up to $500,000.
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