St James, well known for performing in videos for Men.com and Jet Set Men, was the ringleader of a massive illegal steroid conspiracy in Tennessee.
Real name Joel Logan Pasternak, who worked as one of the first Men.com exclusives introduced in 2011, was sentenced to nine years in federal prison.
The porn star was fined $2.8 million.
Pasternak, 28, pleaded guilty to a ‘federal indictment charging them with conspiring to manufacture and distribute anabolic steroids. He filed an appeal of his conviction this week.
With his family, he was actively involved in importing raw steroid powders shipped in misbranded packing from China.
These were then converted to liquid, pill and tablet form and marketed by the internet.
The steroids were advertised using ‘Hulkbody’, illegally using Marvel imagery to sell the product.
Customers purchased steroids, using false identities, through Western Union, MoneyGram and Walmart-to-Walmart Money Transfer.
Over a three-year period, the Pasternak drug organization operated five different secret steroid labs in Johnson City, Tennessee.
This derived more than $2.8 million in criminal proceeds.
Other family members of Pasternak also face jail time.
His parents Edward Stanley Pasternak, 59, was sentenced to serve 36 months in federal prison, and Lori Pasternak, 52, was sentenced to serve 12 months and one day. Pasternak’s father was a former pastor of Life and Praise Worship Center.
Both were ordered to jointly pay $100,000.
Pasternak’s brothers, Joshua and Jared (32 and 23) were both sentenced to serve four days of intermittent confinement, followed by five years probation. They were also ordered to pay $10,000 each.
The Justice Department says 17 additional individuals have pleaded guilty and awaiting sentencing.
The porn star is serving his sentence at a medium security correctional institution in Kentucky. He is set for release in late 2024.
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