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Northwest Side Pharmacist Sentenced to a Year and a Day in Federal Prison for Selling Counterfeit Viagra and Cialis

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–January 29, 2016.  A suspended Chicago pharmacist was sentenced today to a year and a day in federal prison for dispensing counterfeit erectile-dysfunction pills he had imported from China.

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MICHAEL MARKIEWICZ sold approximately 1,600 counterfeit Viagra and Cialis tablets without a prescription to customers at his Northwest Side pharmacy.   Markiewicz had ordered the phony pills from China via the Internet.  Had the pills been genuine, their retail value would have been approximately $35,000.

Markiewicz, 39,…

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