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Whizzinator makers sentenced in Pennsylvania fed court
By Joe Mandak
Associated Press
Posted: 04/08/2010 08:04:19 AM PDT
Updated: 04/08/2010 09:21:37 AM PDT
PITTSBURGH A Southern California man who spent nearly six years in prison for marijuana trafficking in the mid-1980s will spend six months in federal prison for running a company that sold a male prosthetic that helped men cheat on drug tests.
Sixty-seven-year-old Gerald Wills, of San Pedro, sold a product called the Whizzinator along with a synthetic urine that could be used to fill the device so pilots, truck drivers and others could pass federally mandated drug tests.
Wills' partner, Robert Catalano, of Huntington Beach, was also sentenced Tuesday to three years on probation.
Prosecutors asked for leniency for both men because they are cooperating in other investigations.
The men pleaded guilty in 2008 to conspiracy to sell drug paraphernalia and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
By Joe Mandak
Associated Press
Posted: 04/08/2010 08:04:19 AM PDT
Updated: 04/08/2010 09:21:37 AM PDT
PITTSBURGH A Southern California man who spent nearly six years in prison for marijuana trafficking in the mid-1980s will spend six months in federal prison for running a company that sold a male prosthetic that helped men cheat on drug tests.
Sixty-seven-year-old Gerald Wills, of San Pedro, sold a product called the Whizzinator along with a synthetic urine that could be used to fill the device so pilots, truck drivers and others could pass federally mandated drug tests.
Wills' partner, Robert Catalano, of Huntington Beach, was also sentenced Tuesday to three years on probation.
Prosecutors asked for leniency for both men because they are cooperating in other investigations.
The men pleaded guilty in 2008 to conspiracy to sell drug paraphernalia and conspiracy to defraud the United States.