{"id":925,"date":"2009-02-04T04:16:21","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T02:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=925"},"modified":"2015-02-12T21:24:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T02:24:24","slug":"hi-tech-ceo-sentenced-to-50-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/hi-tech-ceo-sentenced-to-50-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi-Tech CEO Draws 50 Month Prison Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"

A link to this MSNBC report<\/a> popped into my inbox just a few hours ago…<\/p>\n

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Writing the final chapter in a strange criminal saga, a federal judge has sentenced the president of a Georgia company that manufactures popular lines of herbal dietary supplements to 50 months in prison for illegally selling knockoff prescription drugs over the Internet.<\/em><\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge Jack T. Camp also fined Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals CEO Jared Wheat $50,000 and ordered him, the company and other individual defendants to forfeit $3 million in proceeds from the scheme.<\/em><\/p>\n

…As first reported by msnbc.com in April 2007, prosecutors initially accused Wheat of running a \u201ccontinuing criminal enterprise\u201d \u2014 a racketeering statute typically used to prosecute organized crime syndicates \u2014 that could have sent him to prison for a minimum of 20 years and resulted in the forfeiture of his company. That charge was dropped during plea negotiations.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nice guy.\u00a0 Reading the article, it’s clear he got off easy.\u00a0 And this criminal\u00a0conviction is in ADDITION to the FTC action against him\/Hi-Tech\u00a0discussed in an earlier post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Not-so-coincidentally, I wrote this paragraph in my review of one of Hi-Tech’s bodybuilding supps<\/a> last year:<\/p>\n

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The cartoon imagery is appropriate for a “cartoon” supplement: given the lack of any credible human studies or data, it’s tough to take Hi-Tech’s claims seriously. Not a single ingredient in Sustanon 250 has been shown to be “highly anabolic” or even “muscle sparing” in any credible human studies. If you’re an older person with declining serum DHEA-S levels, the DHEA component might be useful, but for everyone else…well, let’s just say that a little skepticism is in order.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It never ceases to amaze me, just how crooked some of these guys can be.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0No, I had no idea at the time\u00a0just HOW\u00a0slimy this guy and his company were, but let’s just say I’m not real surprised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A link to this MSNBC report popped into my inbox just a few hours ago…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8292,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions\/8292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}