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DIET PILL CREATOR GETS 20 YEARS IN PRISON BOCA RATON MAN BILKED MORE THAN 130,000 LIPOBAN CUSTOMERS, FEDS SAY; POLICE: DNA TIES MAN TO CAR-BURGLARY SPREE
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DIET PILL CREATOR GETS 20 YEARS IN PRISON BOCA RATON MAN BILKED MORE THAN 130,000 LIPOBAN CUSTOMERS, FEDS SAY; POLICE: DNA TIES MAN TO CAR-BURGLARY SPREE
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DIET PILL CREATOR GETS 20 YEARS IN PRISON BOCA RATON MAN BILKED MORE THAN 130,000 LIPOBAN CUSTOMERS, FEDS SAY; POLICE: DNA TIES MAN TO CAR-BURGLARY SPREE
2010
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A federal jury in West Palm Beach convicted [Frank Sarcona] in October of 29 felony counts related to Lipoban, including money laundering, wire fraud and misbranding of a food. Sarcona, 58, secretly helped form Lipoban in 2000 just months after cutting a deal with the Federal Trade Commission over the misleading claims of his previous weight-loss company, SlimAmerica. Even before Sarcona started Lipoban, a federal judge described him in a 1999 ruling as having \"a long record of assorted fraudulent schemes which have bilked thousands of victims out of millions of dollars in more than a dozen states.\" With such weight-loss companies as Forever Thin and Amerdream, Sarcona racked up 13 state or federal cease-and-desist orders dating back to 1984. After federal authorities raided Lipoban in 2004, Sarcona started up yet another diet pill company, Nature's Pharmacy, using an advertising campaign nearly identical to Lipoban's.
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