Fraud Charged In Weight Reducing
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) NEW YORK, Feb. 16. Fines totalling 8500 dollars were imposed in New York yesterday after an advertising campaign for a weight-reducing pill known as “regimen.” The assistant district attorney, Joseph Stone, urging Judge John Murtagh to impose stiff penalties, said the advertising was “one of the most gigantic and brazen mass media frauds ever perpetrated on the American public.” The Drug Research Corporation of New York was fined 3500 dollars, its president, John Andre, was fined 1500 dollars and the advertising firm of Kastor, Hilton, Chesley, Clifford and Atherton was fined 3500 dollars for making false advertising claims. A 130-count indictment was filed against the defendants in June, 1960. They pleaded guilty to some of the counts in May, 1964. Andre and the corporation now face charges of violating the Pure Food and Drug Act and of mail fraud. A trial is pending against
another firm, New Drug Institute, which allegedly made clinical tests of “regimen.”
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30677, 17 February 1965, Page 13
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