Daily News | Retired N.J. doctor who touted toxic chemicals as weight loss drugs sentenced to prison
A retired New Jersey physician who marketed an industrial-grade herbicide as a fast-track diet pill and later faked a cancer diagnosis in an attempt to avoid trial was sentenced Wednesday to nearly three years in federal prison.
“I wasn’t trying to run a business,” he said. “I was trying to help people. I’ve been trying to help people for the 45 years I was in practice.” Previously, forms of DNP had been sold over the counter. And during World War II, the Russian military supplied thousands of its soldiers with the drug to increase their metabolism and body temperature during the harsh winter conditions of the siege of Leningrad.
For instance, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joan E. Burnes noted, when he first began selling DNP on eBay, he shipped it to his customers across the globe using several fake return addresses. And when the auction website pulled his listings in 2018, he continued to sell the chemical on Twitter and on his own website.
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