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TexasTowelie

(111,300 posts)
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 01:40 AM Sep 2018

Westchester Doctor, Wife Sentenced For Running $77M Black-Market Pill Mill

An elderly doctor and his wife, who called Westchester home are heading to prison after being busted running a black market pill mill that “pumped out” more than $77 million in painkillers onto the black market over the course of several years.

Scarsdale residents Rogelio Lucas, 80, and his wife, Lydia Lucas, 82, who operated a medical practice on the Upper West Side, were found guilty of distributing approximately 3.2 million pills of Oxycodone, which flooded the streets of Manhattan.

Rogelio Lucas received a term of between 1 year and four months to four years in prison on one count of conspiracy and another 1 and a half years on each of 29 counts of criminal sale of a prescription for a controlled substance, all to run concurrently. His wife was sentenced to a term of between one and three years in prison for conspiracy and one year for each of the 29 counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance, also to run concurrently.

The Lucas’ must also serve one year of post-release supervision. A civil asset forfeiture proceeding has been scheduled. Lucas was also required to surrender his medical license in April 2016 while the criminal charges against him were pending.

Read more: https://yonkers.dailyvoice.com/news/westchester-doctor-wife-sentenced-for-running-77m-black-market-pill-mill/741857/

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Westchester Doctor, Wife Sentenced For Running $77M Black-Market Pill Mill (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2018 OP
Thats it? A slap on the wrist? tulipsandroses Sep 2018 #1
Am I reading it wrong. safeinOhio Sep 2018 #2

tulipsandroses

(5,092 posts)
1. Thats it? A slap on the wrist?
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 02:50 AM
Sep 2018

What a joke!

I wonder if they were selling heroin on the corner - or black kids pushing crack cocaine what their sentence would be?
Was their age a consideration in sentencing? I hope not. They ran 77 mil drug ring and get a slap on the wrist. Who knows how many people died? Inevitably when that many Opioids are being pushed on the streets, people die. Not to mention the devastating effects of addiction.
This so called war on drugs is friggin joke - just a war on poor folks.
Why is their sentence any different from a drug cartel? From the drug gangs?
Why do doctors get a pass? They are no different from the drug dealers on the corner. Matter of fact, in my opinion they are even worse than the dope man on the corner. They take an oath to First do no harm.

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