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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A businessman pleaded guilty Friday to illegally distributing steroids and human growth hormone, admitting he paid doctors to write unnecessary prescriptions for hundreds of patients they never met or examined.
Daniel McGlone, 54, became the third and final defendant to plead guilty in the federal case, joining two doctors who were recruited to write the prescriptions.
He pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence to 50 counts, including conspiracy, illegal drug distribution, money laundering and health care fraud. He has agreed to forfeit the more than $830,000 prosecutors say he obtained through the scheme, which ran from April 2004 to August 2006.
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