Doctor duo sentenced for selling bootleg Botox

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Husband-and-wife doctors were sent to prison Thursday for selling a dangerous bootleg form of Botox to hundreds of physicians.

The scheme was discovered during an investigation into four cases in which people injected with knockoffs of the wrinkle-remover nearly died.

Dr. Chad Livdahl, 34, was sentenced to nine years in prison by U.S. District Judge James Cohn. His wife, 34-year-old Dr. Zahra Karim, was sentenced to almost six years behind bars but will probably serve less than two because she will be sent to her native Canada and will be eligible for early release, her attorney said.

The Arizona couple were also ordered to repay the U.S. government more than $345,000.