06-05-2016 14:04 via wbrz.com

4-year sentence for man in diet pill scam

BATON ROUGE - Federal prosecutors say a Florida man has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for illegally selling diet pills that were mislabeled as "all natural" diet supplements.A news release from U.S. Attorney Walt Green in Baton Rouge says 52-year-old John Wesley Hoag of Fort Lauderdale pleaded guilty last year. The pills he distributed as "all natural" actually contained sibutramine. That prescription weight loss drug was pulled from the market in 2010 because of stroke and he
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