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July 13, 2007

Former N.Y. doctor pleads guilty in steroid case

PROVIDENCE -- A former New York doctor has pleaded guilty to writing illegal steroid prescriptions.

Ana Maria Santi admitted in federal court today that she wrote about 100 prescriptions per month for customers she had never met or examined. Santi used the name of a retired doctor in California since she had lost her medical license several years earlier.

Prosecutors say Santi was paid for the prescriptions by Daniel McGlone, a New Jersey businessman whose company catered to bodybuilders and other customers seeking steroids or human growth hormone. McGlone has also agreed to plead guilty.

Prosecutors have said Santi and other doctors were enlisted by the McGlone, president of New Jersey-based American Pharmaceutical Group, to write prescriptions for bodybuilders and other customers, including some in Rhode Island.

McGlone sent the prescriptions to numerous pharmacies, including Florida-based Signature Pharmacy, which has been implicated in a larger steroid investigation.

-- The Associated Press, with archival A.P. reports

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