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Baseball Musings
November 03, 2007
Steroid Sentencing

Two doctors received sentences in connection with the Signature probe Friday.

According to a federal investigation in Rhode Island of Internet drug operations - which is separate but similar to the ongoing state investigation in Albany, N.Y. - Santi admitted using the name and prescription number of a dying former co-worker for at least five years. She did so despite having her medical license revoked in 1999 and "without ever meeting, diagnosing, speaking to or observing" her clients, Goldstein told the court yesterday.

From 2005 to 2006, Goldstein said Santi earned $125,000 for the forged signatures.

"She committed this offense with a stroke of a pen and a push of a fax button from her home," Goldstein said.

Furthermore, she said Santi recruited fellow New York City doctor Victor Mariani, a former medical school classmate of Santi's in Argentina, to participate in the scam. Mariani, 73, was sentenced yesterday to one year of home confinement, two additional years of supervised probation, a $6,000 fine and forfeiture of $34,485 in earnings. Unlike Santi, who had a history of previous insurance fraud, Mariani was a first-time offender and was considered "not as culpable" as Santi, Goldstein said.


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