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Chan pleads guilty to a single felony in plea agreement


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Alexander Chan, a New York-based veterinarian, faces three counts of drug adulteration, misbranding and conspiracy to commit wire fraud for allegedly injecting performance-enhancing drugs. (PED) purposefully entered racehorses trained by co-defendant Jason Servis and then concealed the bill for his services, cutting a plea deal with the government on Monday.

Chan’s settlement involves a waiver of the indictment and plea to a single alternative information charge of drug counterfeiting and misbranding in exchange for other charges against him, a form similar in nature to agreements by other convicted defendants in large-scale doping conspiracy. The case agreed with government prosecutors rather than facing a trial by jury.

Chan had signaled his intention to plead guilty Last Thursday, when he requested and was promptly granted a change of guilty plea hearing on December 5 in the United States District Court (Southern District of New York).

That decision appears to make Servis the sole remaining senior defendant in the case to go to trial as scheduled for January 9. But it was reported Friday that that Servis is also seeking a plea agreement to try a trio of felonies of drug mislabelling and conspiracy to commit fraud. There were no updates on the court notebook regarding the status of Servis’ case in the early hours of Monday night.

As part of his plea agreement, Chan will also have to pay the federal forfeiture of $311,760. The monetary judgment represents the value of “any and all drugs that have been adulterated or misbranded when introduced into or in the course of interstate commerce or while held for sale…” according to court documents filed on December 5.

Chan will be sentenced on April 13.

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This story was posted in Top News and tagged Alexander Chan, doping, FBI indictment, Jason serves, PED.

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