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Big Pharma takes on counterfeit drugs

In Las Vegas, Lazaro Hernandez was a flamboyant, jet-setting poker player shown in televised tournaments with stacks of colorful chips. But the casually dressed gambler spotted on security cameras with wads of cash at the casino cage was hiding a secret life.And federal investigators say he was gambling with people's lives. Hernandez, they say, oversaw a nationwide $230 million scheme to counterfeit prescription medications, particularly lifesaving HIV drugs, in which pill bottles were altered and sold back to pharmacies…