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signature-pharmacy-steroids A Texas woman, who was a former employee of the wellness center Cellular Nucleonic Advantage, pleaded guilty to a felony drug charge Dec. 3 in Albany County Court. The Houston-based company reportedly engaged in steroid distribution activity, giving prescriptions to clients who were never examined by doctors.

Sweta Patel, pleaded guilty to single count of criminal diversion of a prescription medication. For this violation, the 26-year-old Patel could face up to five years probation.

Albany County Assistant District Attorney Christopher Baynes described Patel’s involvement in the multi-state steroid distribution investigation. Baynes said Patel was a “go-between for the clients and doctors” and that “she made sure the patients got what they wanted.”

This case was linked to the Florida-based Signature Compounding Pharmacy, which was alleged to be the center of the steroid distribution network, involving several “wellness clinics” and “anti-aging centers” across several states. The indictments against five people involved in the operation of Signature, including those of the husband-wife owners Stan and Naomi Loomis, were thrown out by a New York state judge September this year. Kirk Calvert, mentioned in the report below, was among the five defendants.

Patel’s lawyer Terence L. Kindlon, sought a dismissal of her charges based on Albany County Court Judge Stephen W. Herrick’s decision to throw out the indictment against the five Signature defendants. Kindlon’s motion was denied.

From Times Union:

Patel, along with Eugene Bolton, 40, and Monday Miller, 38, were among the first people indicted in the Albany-based investigation that stretches back more than three years. Their Houston company ran ads in muscle magazines for people seeking access to controlled substances.

Following their indictment, Bolton and Miller both began cooperating with law enforcement authorities against the operators of Orlando’s Signature Compounding Pharmacy, which was raided about four months later in February 2007.

Bolton, a former semi-pro football player, wore a recording device for investigators in Orlando during a meeting with a Florida physician and a Signature pharmacy executive, Kirk Calvert. During the meeting, Bolton handed $1,950 in cash to the doctor, Claire Godfrey, in exchange for prescriptions she had signed, records show. Bolton told a judge last year that some of the money was for prescriptions that were yet to be signed, according to records in the case.

Bolton said the meeting with Calvert and Godfrey had been to set up a deal for Godfrey to sign prescriptions that would be funneled to Signature pharmacy from Bolton’s so-called ”wellness center” in Houston.

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