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January 15, 2008

Former doc sentenced for steroids in R.I. and now N.Y.

ALBANY, N.Y. -- A former doctor was sentenced to prison for 3 to 6 years on charges stemming from Albany County prosecutors' multistate investigation into illegal sales of steroids and other drugs.

Ana Santi, 69, pleaded guilty in March to a single felony count of criminal diversion of prescription medications as part of a plea agreement. She was sentenced Monday by Judge Stephen Herrick, a court clerk said.

In November, she was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Providence to two years in federal prison for writing illegal prescriptions for a New Jersey-based business.

In New York State, a 13-count count indictment in January charged the Queens resident with signing prescriptions for Internet customers of a Florida-based health clinic without ever seeing them, signing prescriptions without a valid medical license and forging the name of another doctor.

Santi's New York license to practice medicine was revoked in 1999.

So far, 11 people have pleaded guilty in Albany County District Attorney P. David Soares' probe into Internet sales of prescription drugs. It is illegal in New York for doctors to write prescriptions for patients they don't see in person.

-- The Associated Press

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