Florida resident Domingo Gonzalez was sentenced to nine-and-a-half years in prison and ordered to pay $1.8 million after pleading guilty to selling more than 4 million counterfeit Lipitor tablets between December 2002 and August 2005.
A Gastonia, South Carolina man who failed to appear in a Charlotte court last year as a federal grand jury was to begin deliberating his drug case has been convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
A King County, Washington judge violated the rights of the defendant and the public when he closed the courtroom in a drug case, the Washington State Supreme Court said.