BREAKING: Aaron Singerman Sentenced To 4.5 Years In Prison

January 28, 2022

Aaron Singerman has been sentenced to 4.5 years in prison.

Supplement company Blackstone Labs co-founder, Aaron Singerman, has been officially sentenced to 4.5 years in prison, according to an official statement released by the Department of Justice. This comes after Singerman and PJ Braun had reached a plea deal for selling illegal anabolic steroids and other unlawful controlled substances marketed as dietary supplements.

Singerman will also have to pay a sum of $2.9 million for his involvement, along with his time in a Pensacola prison. The case for Blackstone Labs has been postponed until Feb. 17. Braun still waits for his sentencing.

The case also involved co-founder PJ Braun and a sentencing for Blackstone Labs as a whole – but these two sentencings were postponed until a later date – February 17th, 2022.

Just a few weeks before the sentencing was made public, Aaron Singerman posted a pre-recorded video on his social media channels. Singerman claims that the video was recorded the night before returning to court – where he was eventually placed into holding without bail until the sentencing. The official sentencing was held on Thursday, January 27th, 2022. In the post, he claims that if the video is being published, then he has been sentenced and that this will be his final statement for quite some time.

You can watch the video post below:

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The charges against Aaron Singerman, PJ Braun, and Blackstone Labs

It was earlier reported that Aaron Singerman and PJ Braun, co-founders of Blackstone Labs LLC, were charged with conspiring to sell illegal anabolic steroids and other unlawful controlled substances marketed as dietary supplements. In November 2021, Singerman and BJ Braun came to a plea deal on the charges.

Reports indicated that Aaron Singerman and PJ Braun had pleaded guilty as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors. Singerman and Braun pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute substances and to selling unapproved new drugs. Blackstone Labs LLC had also pleaded guilty to these same charge as well as one count of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and to committing mail and wire fraud.

In more direct terms, this indicated that in pleading guilty, Aaron Singerman and PJ Braun have admitted to misleading customers through Blackstone Labs by marketing and selling controlled substances that were not approved by the FDA as dietary supplements. Blackstone Labs has also made these admissions while also pleading guilty to additional charges as mentioned above.

Not only were the substances marketed and sold as dietary supplements. According to the DOJ report, the substances were falsely represented as made in “FDA approved” facilities when that was not the case. FDA approved facilities are regulated to standards set by the FDA. Controlled substances, of course, would not be produced from such facilities.

Aaron Singerman’s DUI’s before sentencing

In the weeks leading up to Aaron Singerman’s sentencing, the supplement co-founder found himself running into more legal trouble while on probation. In November 2021, Singerman was arrested for boating under the influence. This resulted in the suspension of his driver’s license and a new bond condition consistent with the latter restriction.

On January 13, 2022, Aaron Singerman made headlines again, he was arrested for driving a car under the influence and causing an accident. According to the court filing, Singerman was “in flagrant violation of this court’s order and Florida law, and with total disregard for public safety, the defendant illegally drove a car, while admittedly under the influence of sleeping medication, and had a car accident.”

Federal prosecutors requested a judge revoke Aaron Singerman’s bond conditions. This came just weeks before today’s sentencing for his role in the sale of illegal products marketed as dietary supplements.

The government also requested an order that he be held without bond, pending sentencing. Singerman’s lawyer, James Durham, opposed the motion, according to prosecutors’ court filing.

Aaron Singerman and PJ Braun’s past statements on the Blackstone Labs LLC raid

Generation Iron has been following the story and interviewed PJ Braun multiple times. Generation Iron produced an original series on the life of the bodybuilding business entrepreneur. In one episode of the series, Braun detailed the experience of being raided by the federal government in 2017. You can watch that episode below:

Aaron Singerman has also spoken with Generation Iron in previous GI Exclusive interviews. In one segment, he details his past relationship with PJ Braun and explains their fall out after the Blackstone Labs LLC raid in 2017. You can also watch that video below right here:

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