MOBILE, Ala.—The first of a group of a dozen people indicted in Mobile on steroids conspiracy charges to admit his guilt has become the last to be sentenced.
U.S. District Judge Ginny Granade sentenced James A. Abernathy of Colorado Springs, Colo., on Thursday to a year and a day in prison. That was three months less than he would have gotten under advisory sentencing guidelines.
The judge agreed to a prosecution recommendation of leniency as a reward for Abernathy’s early cooperation. The 56-year-old Abernathy ran an anti-aging clinic in Colorado and worked with a South Carolina doctor in 2005 to provide customers with prescriptions for anabolic steroids. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to sell 4,834 dosage units and conspiracy to launder money. He also forfeited $5,000.
———
Information from: Press-Register,
