Horse Doping Seller Sentenced To 42 Months In Manhattan Federal Court Lisa Giannelli Sentenced to 42 Months in Prison

 

Horse Doping Seller Sentenced To 42 Months In Manhattan Federal Court

Lisa Giannelli Sentenced to 42 Months in Prison

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that defendant LISA GIANNELLI, received a sentence of 42 months in prison today for her role in an approximately 20-year scheme to sell and distribute to racehorse trainers and others in the racehorse industry “untestable” performance enhancing drugs (“PEDs”) for use in professional horseracing. GIANNELLI was one of over 30 defendants charged in four separate cases in March 2020, each arising from this Office’s multi-year investigation of the abuse of racehorses through the use of performance enhancing drugs.