A federal appeals court has affirmed an 87-month prison sentence and a $508,000 restitution order for a Chinese citizen who pleaded guilty to distributing counterfeit prescription medication.
On Monday in U.S. v. Zhou, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed District of Colorado Judge Philip Brimmer’s June 2011 sentence. In January 2011, Shengyang Zhou pleaded guilty to trafficking and attempted trafficking of counterfeit versions of the "Alli" weight loss drug, admitting to selling commercial quantities of the fake products to various U.S. redistributors, but challenged the length of his sentence.
