By:  Don Driggers

The New York Post has an exclusive report that Daniel Russo, 44, of Cedarhurst, LI, plead guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone, distribution and possession of oxycodone, and filing false personal and corporate tax returns in Brooklyn federal court Friday, according to prosecutors.

“Russo was a drug dealer in a white coat,” Breon Peace, US attorney for the Eastern District of New York, wrote in a statement to The New York Post.

“He abused his pharmacy license and the trust placed in him by the community to illegally distribute enormous amounts of oxycodone, spreading misery in the community and fueling addiction, all to enrich himself.”

According to The New York Post, prosecutors allege that the owner of Russo’s Pharmacy in Far Rockaway conspired with medical professionals and employees to fill fraudulent prescriptions of the addictive drug in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash between 2011 and 2014. Russo then failed to report more than $1 million in earnings, much of which he made from the illicit drug scheme.

“Everyone is required to pay their fair share of taxes, whether they make their money legitimately or through criminal activity,” the prosecutor said in a statement.

Russo faces up to 67 years in federal prison according to the feds, reports The New York Post.

In another drug related story, Rich Calder of The New York Post writes that A California man and an alleged accomplice from Texas are facing life in prison after being indicted on charges they turned to the dark web to hawk 120,000 fake oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl to thousands of unsuspecting customers across the country, officials said.

In a 19-count federal grand jury indictment, Michael Ta, 24, of Westminster, Ca., and Houston resident Rajiv Srinivasan, 37, were charged in “a conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine,” the US Department of Justice said in a news release Friday.

Srinivasan allegedly sold the drugs on “Darkode,” a dark web forum notoriously used for cybercrime, according to the Los Angeles Times.

On the forum and an encrypted messaging app, they sold 123,188 fentanyl pills, more than 143 kilograms of methamphetamine, black tar heroin and cocaine, the indictment alleges. Roughly 7,000 of those pills were allegedly sold to an undercover agent posing as a customer between February and November.

Once Srinivasan received payments, he’d route money through cryptocurrency exchanges, according to the indictment.

Pharmacists and doctors engaging in criminal drug activity is nothing new, as ethics and moral decay slowly destroys society fostered by extremist left breakdown of , civility and decency in the name of “tolerance”, the result is disastrous. The Hippocratic oath has been tossed aside decades ago, as we witnessed the medical profession’s rank and file, without batting an eye, distribute the COVID vaccine to millions, without question or research but simply reciting a mantra of “safe and effective.”

It should come as no shock that doctors and pharmacists are often the most successful drug dealers until they get caught.

In late 2022 for example eight Defendants, including a Brooklyn medical doctor, and three pharmacists, were charged with illegally distributing more than 1.2 million Oxycodone pills. Dr. Somsri Ratanaprasatporn, her office manager Leticia Smith, Bassam Amin, Omar Elsayed, and Yousef Ennab who are pharmacists, Michael Kent, Anthony Mathis, and Raymond Walker with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone and related crimes.