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National Briefing | South: Florida: Doctors Plead Guilty To Selling Fake Botox

Husband-and-wife doctors pleaded guilty in Fort Lauderdale to federal charges involving the distribution of a dangerous knockoff of the anti-wrinkle treatment Botox. The doctors, Chad Livdahl and Zahra Karim, who ran a supply house in Arizona, could be sentenced on Jan. 26 to up to 20 years in prison for fraud and conspiracy. Prosecutors said the doctors' business sold the product to more than 200 doctors nationwide. More than 1,000 patients were injected with it.

A version of this article appears in print on  , Section A, Page 24 of the National edition with the headline: National Briefing | South: Florida: Doctors Plead Guilty To Selling Fake Botox. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

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