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>Mother, son get prison in Internet-pharmacy case > >By Catherine Wilson | The Associated Press >Posted September 5, 2003 > > > > > Email this story to a friend > Printer friendly version > > > > > > > > > >MIAMI -- A restaurateur and her son were sentenced to >federal prison Thursday on charges of running an >unlicensed Internet pharmacy that filled orders >nationally from a bedroom in her suburban home. > >Betty Gorman was sentenced to three years and one >month and her son James Gorman was sentenced to two >years for their convictions on more than 120 counts. > >A jury found them guilty in April of dispensing drugs >without prescriptions on $1.3 million in sales >generated by two Internet sites -- younglifestyle.com >and genericlifestyle.com. > >The business was shut down in May 2001 after less than >a year. Medications included the antibiotic Cipro and >an assortment of thyroid drugs and painkillers. > >While awaiting sentencing, the Gormans were charged >with launching four new illegal Internet pharmacies >after the first investigation began. They had been >free on bail but were jailed after their second >arrests. > >Betty Gorman organized the business, which repackaged >wholesale prescriptions in her Pembroke Pines home. A >U.S. drug supplier was given a fake license indicating >she was a broker in the Cayman Islands, where she used >to live. > >Web designer Kenneth Dodd was convicted with the >Gormans and faces sentencing Sept. 19. > >The Gormans' son and brother, John, who manages the >family's restaurant, is on probation for misdemeanor >convictions in the first case. He admitted shipping >packages of the prescription drugs.

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