Dave Palumbo (*old story about when he was busted selling fake and unsterile Gro

[wolfgang187]

Dave Palumbo (*old story about when he was busted selling fake and unsterile Growth Hormone)

Just so everyone is clear on this, I’m only making a reference to Dave Palumbo’s “Growth Hormone” bust because I am referencing it in my latest Patrick Arnold blog post.

The Growth Hormone that Dave Palumbo was busted for selling was totally fake, and dirty. (For the record, Dave is the owner of Species Nutrition, Senior Editor of MuscularDevelopment.com, and staff writer for the print magazine). I’m not doing this to bash Dave, but only because it’s relevant to today’s story about Patrick Arnold.

Here’s the story, unaltered except for my own highlighting:

By Onell R. Soto
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

October 11, 2004

The check bounced.

So a representative of a Spring Valley printer that produced packaging for a human growth hormone contacted the manufacturer and demanded payment.

The Swiss pharmaceutical company responded that it hadn’t ordered packaging from the printer for its drug, Serostim.

And so began the unraveling of a counterfeit growth hormone ring that resulted in the conviction last week of the editor of a muscle magazine, a New York man who says he is a former medical student.

Four San Diego County men also have pleaded guilty in the case. Three of them have been sentenced to prison or probation.

Serostim contains a form of the human growth hormone somatropin.

It is an important drug. Serostim was the first growth hormone approved by the Food and Drug Administration for AIDS patients who are dangerously underweight, a condition known as AIDS wasting.

The drug retails for about $1,675 per seven-vial box, and patients take a vial daily, according to a local pharmacist.

Because of the muscle growth it stimulates, it’s prized by body builders who seek a drug-induced advantage. But unless they get a prescription, they have to turn to the black market.

When the drug’s maker, Serono, heard from the Spring Valley printer, it turned to the FDA.

An investigation turned up a National City father and son Ronald Nollet Sr. and Jr., who began manufacturing counterfeit Serostim in April 2002, according to court documents.

The father, posing as a Serono representative, had ordered the labels and boxes for the packaging. But his check bounced, prosecutors said.

At his house, agents found counterfeit labels and boxes. At his son’s house they found vials of the phony drug and a machine to seal the drug in the vials, according to court papers.

The Nollets paid an Oregon company to make the fake medicine out of sugar, phosphoric acid and water. The vials did not contain the hormone, prosecutors said.

What’s more, the process wasn’t sterile. FDA scientists examining the contents found mold. The solution was highly acidic.

“The FDA is very concerned about this stuff,” prosecutor Melanie Pierson said. “If it got into the hands of the intended users, which are AIDS patients, they could be seriously and perhaps fatally harmed.”

She said she knew of no AIDS patient who took the concoction.

The Nollets told investigators they put together the business with Brian Mohr of San Diego, who provided the funds and told them what to do, according to court documents.

The Nollets agreed to provide the fake drug. Mohr agreed to sell it, splitting the profits with them, according to the documents.

When FBI and FDA agents raided Mohr’s San Diego house in August 2002 they found $34,400 in cash, boxes of counterfeit Serostim and anabolic steroids.

Mohr told them he came up with the formula for the drug from the list of ingredients in a box of real Serostim.

He got 447 boxes of the sham Serostim from the Nollets in June. More than half of them went to Bill Young of San Diego for about $330 a box, according to the documents.

Mohr later talked with Young as agents eavesdropped. He told Young to try to get back the fake Serostim he’d distributed. As Young drove away from the meeting, he called people in Florida, New York, Los Angeles and San Diego County, according to phone records reviewed by investigators.

Young was later arrested and told investigators he shipped most of the phony Serostim he got to Dave “Jumbo” Palumbo, a bodybuilder in Long Island, prosecutors said.

In his magazine, RxMuscle, Palumbo advocates the use of muscle-growing drugs.

The magazine promises articles based on “research data, practical knowledge, and ‘in the trenches’ experience.”

On his own Web site, Palumbo says he studied medicine for three years, has developed a training program and has grown from 168 pounds to his current 258 pounds as a result of training and a protein-rich diet.

“Overnight, I went from the crazy ‘lunatic,’ mad scientist, to the ‘man’ with all the secrets,” he says on the site. “Nobody realized that the big secret was nothing more than CONSISTENCY and relentless PERSISTENCE.”

In pleading guilty in San Diego federal court, Palumbo said he injected some of the fake drug he got from Young. When Young first told him there might be a problem, Palumbo said he took some and felt fine, according to court records.

About half of the 200 boxes Young shipped to him were lost in transit, a prosecutor said.

Palumbo pleaded guilty to selling 90 boxes of the fake hormone to bodybuilders who didn’t have a prescription for about $63,000, or about $700 each.

He faces 10 to 18 months in jail at a sentencing scheduled for Dec. 17, according to his plea agreement.

Young, 35, pleaded guilty last year to trafficking in counterfeit goods and is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 25.

Mohr, 31, pleaded guilty to mail fraud in 2002 and was sentenced to three months in prison.

Ronald Nollet Sr., 55, pleaded guilty to manufacturing and distributing counterfeit drugs and was sentenced to three years’ probation, as was his 33-year-old son.

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[wolfgang187]

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countdown to deletion in 5 4 3 2 ...

HA HA HA

[dknole]

was your post in retaliation for Dave posting the $6million dollar judgement against you Anthony?

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
HOUSTON DIVISION

DYNAMIC SPORTS NUTRITION, INC., §
§
Plaintiff, §
§
VS. § CIVIL ACTION NO. H-08-1929
§
ANTHONY ROBERTS, et al., §
§
Defendants §

ORDER ENTERING INJUNCTION AND FINAL JUDGMENT
Judgment is issued in favor of Plaintiff, Dynamic Sports Nutrition, Inc. and against
Defendants Anthony Roberts a/k/a Anthony Connors and A Roberts, LLC (the “Roberts
Defendants”) as set forth below. The court issues this Final Judgment pursuant to this court’s
Memorandum and Opinion dated January 16, 2009 setting forth its findings of fact and
conclusions of law on the damages and attorney’s fees sought by Plaintiff following the
court’s entry of default against the Roberts Defendants.
In accordance with this court’s January 16, 2009 Memorandum and Opinion, it is
ordered that:
1. The plaintiff recovers from the defendants, Anthony Roberts and A Robert,
LLC, jointly and severally, $569,065.00 in past lost profits, $6,090,000.00 in
future lost profits from January 16, 2009 through December 31, 2011,
$32,417.50 in reasonable attorney’s fees, taxable court costs of $350.00, along
with postjudgment interest on these amounts at the rate of 0.44% per annum,
Case 4:08-cv-01929 Document 24 Filed in TXSD on 01/20/2009 Page 1 of 3
2
beginning January 16, 2009 and continuing until the amounts awarded are paid
in full.
2. Based on the announcement of the plaintiff’s counsel of settlement, the court
hereby dismisses without prejudice all claims plaintiff asserted against
Defendant Douglas Drier. FED. R. CIV. P. 41(a)(1)
3. Anthony Roberts and A. Roberts, LLC, and their agents, servants, employees,
and those persons in active concert or participation with them who receive
actual notice of the order by personal service or otherwise, shall refrain from:
(a) Directly or indirectly disclosing the confidential information as defined
above;
(b) Selling, assigning, or converting any data regarding the confidential
information or any information regarding DSNI’s profit margins,
manufacturing costs of its products,s ales history, customers’ financial
information or prior purchases from DSNI, or any other data contained
on either the stolen Macintosh laptop computer or on the compact disc
Roberts admitted to having in his possession in his June 22, 2008 blog
posting;
(c) Using any password to access private, password-protected information
contained in the websites operated by DSNI (such as sales data or the
Case 4:08-cv-01929 Document 24 Filed in TXSD on 01/20/2009 Page 2 of 3
3
names, addresses, and orders of DSNI’s customers).
This is a Final Judgment.
SIGNED on January 16, 2009, at Houston, Texas.
________________________ ______________
Lee H. Rosenthal
United States District Judge
__________________
Editor-in-Chief of musculardevelopment.com
www.davepalumbo.com
www.speciesnutrion.com

[wolfgang187]

SORRY MAN I'M WOLFGANG187

was your post in retaliation for Dave posting the $6million dollar judgement against you Anthony?

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
HOUSTON DIVISION

DYNAMIC SPORTS NUTRITION, INC., §
§
Plaintiff, §
§
VS. § CIVIL ACTION NO. H-08-1929
§
ANTHONY ROBERTS, et al., §
§
Defendants §

ORDER ENTERING INJUNCTION AND FINAL JUDGMENT
Judgment is issued in favor of Plaintiff, Dynamic Sports Nutrition, Inc. and against
Defendants Anthony Roberts a/k/a Anthony Connors and A Roberts, LLC (the “Roberts
Defendants”) as set forth below. The court issues this Final Judgment pursuant to this court’s
Memorandum and Opinion dated January 16, 2009 setting forth its findings of fact and
conclusions of law on the damages and attorney’s fees sought by Plaintiff following the
court’s entry of default against the Roberts Defendants.
In accordance with this court’s January 16, 2009 Memorandum and Opinion, it is
ordered that:
1. The plaintiff recovers from the defendants, Anthony Roberts and A Robert,
LLC, jointly and severally, $569,065.00 in past lost profits, $6,090,000.00 in
future lost profits from January 16, 2009 through December 31, 2011,
$32,417.50 in reasonable attorney’s fees, taxable court costs of $350.00, along
with postjudgment interest on these amounts at the rate of 0.44% per annum,
Case 4:08-cv-01929 Document 24 Filed in TXSD on 01/20/2009 Page 1 of 3
2
beginning January 16, 2009 and continuing until the amounts awarded are paid
in full.
2. Based on the announcement of the plaintiff’s counsel of settlement, the court
hereby dismisses without prejudice all claims plaintiff asserted against
Defendant Douglas Drier. FED. R. CIV. P. 41(a)(1)
3. Anthony Roberts and A. Roberts, LLC, and their agents, servants, employees,
and those persons in active concert or participation with them who receive
actual notice of the order by personal service or otherwise, shall refrain from:
(a) Directly or indirectly disclosing the confidential information as defined
above;
(b) Selling, assigning, or converting any data regarding the confidential
information or any information regarding DSNI’s profit margins,
manufacturing costs of its products,s ales history, customers’ financial
information or prior purchases from DSNI, or any other data contained
on either the stolen Macintosh laptop computer or on the compact disc
Roberts admitted to having in his possession in his June 22, 2008 blog
posting;
(c) Using any password to access private, password-protected information
contained in the websites operated by DSNI (such as sales data or the
Case 4:08-cv-01929 Document 24 Filed in TXSD on 01/20/2009 Page 2 of 3
3
names, addresses, and orders of DSNI’s customers).
This is a Final Judgment.
SIGNED on January 16, 2009, at Houston, Texas.
________________________ ______________
Lee H. Rosenthal
United States District Judge
__________________
Editor-in-Chief of musculardevelopment.com
www.davepalumbo.com
www.speciesnutrion.com

[dknole]

And I am Ron Avidan!

Later AR.

[wolfgang187]

And I am Ron Avidan!

Later AR.

JUST GO THROUGH MY PAST POSTS DIP SHIT.... SORRY DP


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