Former harness trainer Rick Dane has been sentenced to 30 months in prison over his role in the 2020 federal racehorse doping case, reports the Thoroughbred Daily News. He was also ordered to pay a monetary judgement of $33,912.
Dane had previously entered a guilty plea on one felony count, with a second felony charge dropped based on a plea bargain with the prosecution. He is to report to prison on Jan. 9, 2023.
In the original indictment released in March 2020, Dane is characterized as having assisted Seth Fishman in distributing his adulterated and misbranded products. He is specifically alleged to have asked Fishman to provide him with performance-enhancing drugs for trainee Glass Prince in February 2018, and to have asked Lisa Giannelli in 2019 about purchasing and delivering more misbranded and adulterated drugs.
Fishman has been sentenced to 11 years in prison, while Giannelli was sentenced to 3 1/2 years.
The government's sentencing submission details that Dane “not only purchased performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) and prescription drugs from Giannelli that he was using to dope his horses, the defendant also served as a trusted resource for Giannelli by providing background on potential new clients who could be considered 'trustworthy.'”
Read more at the Thoroughbred Daily News.
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