Meth
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Spectrum International and its two top execs plead guilty to distributing pseudoephedrine tablets "knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that [they] would be used to manufacture methamphetamine," U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles announces Oct. 23. Spectrum president Charles Eisele, along with his brother and VP Richard Eisele, distributed roughly 1.1 bil. Ephedrine Release and Ephrin Release tablets between June 1996 and January 1998 to firms that sent pills to meth labs. Billings, Mont.-based company will pay $2 mil. in forfeiture and fines. Defendants will be sentenced Feb. 7 by Los Angeles federal Judge Howard Matz and face a maximum sentence of four years in prison and a $250,000 fine