Man in fake-drug ring gets 5 years
A Weston man who headed a major ring of pharmaceutical counterfeiters was sentenced to five years in federal prison Friday for helping peddle $42 million of an adulterated cholesterol drug, Lipitor, across the country.
Michael A. Carlow, 55, was ordered by a federal judge in Missouri to pay $3.4 million in restitution, and must also return to Broward County for trial on a long list of charges including racketeering, organized fraud, grand theft and illegal drug sales for separate offenses stemming from his operation. State prosecutors estimate the ring made $46 million in profit selling bogus medicines.
By Bob LaMendola
3 March 2007