Houston Doctor gets Jail for Injecting 170 with Fake Botox
A federal judge has sentenced a Houston doctor to nearly six months in prison for injecting at least 170 patients with a fake Botox product not approved for human use.
The court has also ordered Gayle Rothenberg to pay more than $98,000 in fines and has been barred from seeking reinstatement of her medical license.
In March, Rothenberg had pleaded guilty to mislabeling the product and making false statements before the police. She told the court that she stopped ordering Botox after a price increase and started using an unapproved drug, which was cheaper. Rothenberg, was convicted of defrauding patients in 2007, admitted that she knew the drug was not for human use.
“I made a mistake, and it became a federal case,” she told the judge at the time. The judge Ewing Werlein Jr. added that Rothenberg would be under three years of supervised release after coming out of prison.
