Two managers of a Colorado company that marketed $2.5 million in illegal synthetic steroids throughout the U.S. have been sentenced to probationary sentences for conspiring to commit fraud.
U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson sentenced Patrick Williams and Frank Bedoloto to five years on probation Monday in Denver. Each of them had previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and violate the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act.
Jackson also fined Powerlab Nutrition LLC, the company that sold the illegal drugs, $100,000, said Jeff Dorschner, spokesman for Acting U.S. Attorney.
Co-defendant Neil Perkins had previously been sentenced to three years probation.
Federal agents from the federal Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Homeland Security and the Drug Enforcement Administration bought Powerlab products and tested the samples, according to court records.
Williams and Perkins claimed Powerlab products were merely muscle-building dietary supplements when none of them were supplements and they were all illegal.
The products including Epitest, Androdrol, Androdrol Extreme, Primabol, Halotren or Halotest-25 contained new drugs including synthetic steroids that required Federal Food and Drug Administration approval, according to court records.
Williams bought drugs from China. The drugs were shipped to a manufacturing plant in Pennsylvania and then mailed to Colorado for national distribution between 2009 and 2012, according to court records.
Androdrol and Androdrol Extreme contained 6-bromoandrostenedione, a synthetic steroidal inhibitor of estrogen synthesis.
