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PROVIDENCE -- A businessman who illegally distributed steroids and human growth hormone was sentenced today to two years in federal prison and ordered to pay $19,000 in restitution to Blue Cross & Blue Shield.

Daniel McGlone had pleaded guilty to 50 counts, including conspiracy, illegal drug distribution, money laundering and health-care fraud.

In sentencing him, the judge today described McGlone as the lynchpin of a drug-dealing operation.

McGlone ran American Pharmaceutical Group from his New Brunswick, N.J., apartment and advertised in magazines geared to bodybuilders. When customers contacted McGlone, including some from Rhode Island, he advised them on which drugs they should take.

McGlone today apologized to people to whom he sold drugs and to his family

Prosecutors have said McGlone paid doctors to write medically unnecessary prescriptions for hundreds of patients they never met or examined.

-- With reports from Journal staff writer Katie Mulvaney and The Associated Press

 Tags  New Brunswick New Jersey Providence

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