Couple Plead Guilty to Fake Botox Distribution
Husband-and-wife doctors pleaded guilty to federal charges involving the distribution of a dangerous knockoff of the anti-wrinkle treatment Botox.
Chad Livdahl and Zahra Karim, who ran an Arizona supply house, could get as many as 20 years in prison when they are sentenced Jan. 26 for fraud and conspiracy.
A third defendant, Bach McComb, pleaded guilty last week to providing unapproved drugs. McComb could be sentenced to as much as three years in prison.
Prosecutors said McComb injected himself, his girlfriend and two other people at a Fort Lauderdale clinic with bootleg Botox last year from another source, causing severe health problems, including paralysis.
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