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An Illinois man could spend the rest of his life in jail for impersonating whole sections of Health Canada as part of a $25-million scam to bilk investors into funding a bogus Star Trek-inspired medical device.

On Monday, Howard Leventhal, 56, pleaded guilty to a suite of U.S. fraud charges, including stealing the identity of former Health Canada deputy minister Glenda Yeates.

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All told, the Long Grove, Illinois man could be facing up to 22 years in prison, as well as a $2-million fine.

“In Leventhal’s world, the truth was cloaked by his web of lies and impersonation,” said Loretta Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, in a Monday statement.

The truth was cloaked by his web of lies

“Within this alternate reality, Leventhal marketed non-existent technology, fabricated an on-line presence, and impersonated a government official, all to defraud investors out of very real money.”

The non-existent technology was the McCoy Home Health Tablet, a miracle medical device named for Dr. Leonard McCoy, the chief medical officer aboard the USS Enterprise on the 1960s series Star Trek.