Financial Crime: Retired doctor known as the ‘yellow man’ sentenced for selling toxic chemical as weight-loss drug that killed customer

Retired New Jersey doctor William Merlino spent his golden years selling weight-loss drugs online.

But the problem was that the pills he sold were made from DNP, or dinitrophenol, a chemical used as a herbicide or wood preservative that is toxic for human consumption, federal prosecutors said.

He compounded and pressed the pills himself in…