Pharmaceutical exec gets federal prison time

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 3:39 p.m. July 19, 2017
  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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FORT MYERS — Former Fort Myers dietary supplement company president Derek Vest was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for introducing misbranded food into interstate commerce, according to a statement from acting U.S. Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow.

 

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