Married Doctors Sent to Jail for Bootleg Botox
Husband-and-wife doctors were sent to prison for selling a dangerous bootleg form of Botox to hundreds of physicians.
The scheme was discovered during an investigation into four cases in which people nearly died after being injected with knockoffs of the wrinkle remover.
Chad Livdahl, 34, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale to nine years in prison. His wife, Zahra Karim, 34, was sentenced to almost six years but will probably serve less than two because she will be sent to her native Canada and will be eligible for early release under a plea bargain, her lawyer said.
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