Exec behind male supplement Enzyte gets 25 years for fraud

CINCINNATI ? A business possessor convicted of defrauding customers seeking male sexual sweetening products and a kind of herb tea supplements was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in prison.

Steve Warshak, 42, collapse of Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals, also was ordered to pay $93,000 in fines. He was convicted in February on 93 counts of conspiracy, fraud and money laundering.

Federal prosecutors accused the company of bilking customers out of more than $400 jillion with deceptive ads, manipulated credit card transactions and refusal to accept returns or scratch orders.

U.S. District Judge S. Arthur Spiegel ordered Warshak, his female parent, the troupe and some other defendant to forfeit more than $500 million, including whatever was available from bank accounts, cars and homes, a grand forte-piano and a membership in a California spa.

Spiegel said it was impossible to calculate incisively how much money was lost by customers, so he recognized a design based on how much Warshak and the company took in from offenses alleged in the indictments.

Berkeley distributes various products supposed to boost energy, negociate weight, reduce memory loss and economic aid sleep. The company's main product, Enzyte, promises sexual enhancement.

"This is a case about greed," Spiegel said as he reviewed the case. "Steven Warshak preyed on perceived sexual inadequacies of customers."

Spiegel said one aspect of the fraud relied on the reluctance of customers to come forward, which would mean admitting they ordered the sexual sweetening pills.

"I don't see whatever evidence of remorse or concern for anyone merely himself," Spiegel said.

Warshak told the evaluate that was not true.

"I do feel deep compunction and would like to apologize to any client who ever so had a bad go through with my company," he said. "I apologize to all the great people, the employees of Berkeley � they've given their heart and soul. I let them down."

Spiegel aforementioned the company, which likely will be hit with the legal age of the forfeiture, will be allowed to remain in business.

Spiegel denied Warshak's request to remain discharge on bond pending attract, but gave him 30 days to wrap up personal job and report to prison.

Warshak's mother, Harriet Warshak, was sentenced to two years in prison house. She was convicted of conspiracy, bank fraud and money laundering.

Spiegel allowed her to persist free pending appeal and acknowledged that she is 75, has cancer and likely testament never be incarcerated because of the time it takes appeals to work through the courts.

Two former company employees were convicted on related to charges and were to be sentenced Thursday, along with some former employees who pleaded guilty to other charges and cooperated with prosecutors.

They testified that the company created fictional medical endorsements, fabricated a customer-satisfaction survey and made up numbers game to game claims around Enzyte's effectiveness.

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Bernie Mac Dead At 50

Bernie Mac, the histrion and comedian who worked his way to stardom from base beginnings on Chicago's tough South Side, died early Saturday at the age of 50, according to The Associated Press.

"Actor/comedian Bernie Mac passed away this morning from complications due to pneumonia in a Chicago area hospital," his publicist, Danica Smith, aforesaid in a statement. She said no other details were uncommitted and requested that his family's concealment be respected. Earlier this week she had aforesaid reports of Mac's serious illness were overstated and that he was expected to do a full recovery.

In late years, Mac (real list: Bernard Jeffery McCullough) had battled an inflammatory lung disease known as sarcoidosis, which causes inflammation in the lungs, lymph nodes and former organs. It had been in remitment since 2005, and Smith had aforesaid Mac's pneumonia was non related to it.

In addition to his appearance in last year's hit "Transformers," Mac had recently been working on the TV series "Starting Under," as well as several films, including the Samuel L. Jackson flip "Soul Men" (slated for release later this year) and the John Travolta comedy "Old Dogs," which is scheduled for a 2009 liberation. The status of those films was unclear at press time.

Recently Mac made headlines when he attended a Barack Obama fundraiser and made a few lighthearted comments about the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. "I'm gallant of him because government is ill-gotten, especially with Republicans," he said. "People like rumors. They ar going to say things like, you know, 'You was in the club with Lil' Kim, and you and Kanye West got in a slugfest.' " The comments garnered a reprimand from Obama's campaign.

Mac (Bernard Jeffrey McCullough) was born on October 5, 1957, in Chicago, and grew up on the city's South Side, according to AP. His first standup performance was at a church dinner when he was 8, and he began doing standup at clubs in Chicago at 20. His film career began with a little role in "Mo' Money" in 1992. Mac went on to appear in the "Ocean's 11" films with Brad Pitt and George Clooney, "Guess Who" with Ashton Kutcher, "Bad Santa," "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" and other films.

Mac is mayhap best known for his Fox television series "The Bernie Mac Show," which aired from 2001 to 2006. The series, about a man's adventures raising his sister's three children, won a Peabody Award in 2002, and earned Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for Mac. He also was nominated for a Grammy award for best comedy album in 2001, with his "The Original Kings of Comedy" co-stars, Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley and Cedric the Entertainer.

Mac is survived by his wife, Rhonda McCullough, their daughter, Je'Niece, a son-in-law and a granddaughter.

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Just moments after the polls closed in North Carolina, CNN projected that Barack Obama had won the biggest remaining delegate prize in the contentious Democratic nomination fight. With 46 percent of precincts reporting, Hillary Clinton leads Obama in Indiana by a 56 to 44 percent margin, though CNN said it could not yet call the race because a number of key areas where Obama is expected to do well had not yet been tallied. At press time, with 11 percent of the vote in, Obama led Clinton in North Carolina by a 65 to 35 percent margin.
A total of 218 delegates were up for grabs in the two contests, the biggest one-day delegate haul left in the primary season, and Clinton said she was well aware of how critical these typically afterthought states were in the race. "This primary election on Tuesday is a game-changer," Clinton said, according to CNN. "This is going to make a huge difference in what happens going forward. The entire country, probably even a lot of the world, is looking."
With Obama rapidly closing the gap in pledged superdelegates and not enough pledged delegates left in the remaining races for Clinton to overtake him at her current rate, the New York senator would have to win an improbable 70 percent of the vote in the final five primaries and one caucus to catch up to Obama, who leads her in both pledged delegates and the popular vote.
As it stands now, neither Democrat is likely to win the 2,025 delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination by June 3, the date of the final primary in South Dakota, so it will likely fall on the 796 superdelegates — governors, party officials and members of Congress — to decide the race.
Hours before the polls closed, CNN predicted that Clinton had pulled ahead and was expected to win by 4 percentage points in Indiana, where the candidates had been in a dead heat until last week, and where Obama was expected to feel the effects of a recent Supreme Court ruling upholding the Hoosier State's photo-ID law, which could make it difficult for some younger voters without official Indiana driver's licenses or state ID cards to cast their ballots. The Indiana primary held a prize of 84 delegates, while North Carolina promised 134; the win there was the first big one for Obama since his victory in Mississippi in March. Obama was on track to win North Carolina by a comfortable margin, after being up by as many as 25 points in the months leading up to the primary.
As they crisscrossed both states over the past two weeks, the candidates were mostly civil, though they repeatedly exchanged fire over Clinton's support for a summer repeal of the 18-cent-per-gallon federal gas tax, a plan Obama has labeled as pandering for votes and which has drawn poor marks from hundreds of leading economists.
The New York Times reported that voters in both states were deluged by a wave of attack ads from both sides that were more intense than any seen so far in the primary season. The peak came with a Clinton ad on Monday that asked the question, "What has happened to Barack Obama?" countered by an Obama ad that parried, "We need honest answers and a president we can trust." The two candidates spent $9.5 million combined in the two states, almost as much as Democratic Senator John Kerry spent on TV ads during the entire 2004 primary season.
For Clinton, the potential Indiana win could be a chance to show that she is continuing to turn the tide in what had been a losing battle against Obama and further proof, after her wins in Ohio and Pennsylvania, that she has the ability to take big states by tapping into her base of white, blue-collar supporters, a constituency Obama has struggled to connect with.
Obama, who polls suggested was still feeling the ill effects of his break with his controversial former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, was looking for a pair of wins that could prove he is a viable candidate who can win the general election. According to the Times, Clinton's best hope for winning the nomination at this point is to get superdelegates to vote against the pledged delegates after the primaries wrap up on June 3, with the hope that despite trailing Obama in pledged delegates, she can take the lead in the popular vote. The Times reported that Obama currently leads Clinton in the popular vote, 14.8 million to 14.2 million, not counting the votes of Florida and Michigan, whose primary numbers are not being tallied because they pushed their primaries up against party wishes.
With only 217 delegates left in the primaries, the candidates go at it again next Tuesday in West Virginia, a state whose makeup appears to favor Clinton. That election will be followed by Kentucky and Oregon on May 20, Puerto Rico on June 1 and Montana and South Dakota on June 3.
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