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Former Health Minister Noel Blackman charged in US over oxycodone scheme

By Staff Editor On February 9, 2016 @ 10:45 am In Local News

 Former Guyanese Health Minister Dr Noel Blackman was on Sunday charged in relation to illegal prescription of pain killers.

Federal authorities, the New York newspaper Newsday said, arrested the Long Island, New York doctor late Sunday at Kennedy Airport. They suspect he illegally prescribed vast amounts of oxycodone — 365,000 pills in 2015 — in a drug-dealing enterprise spanning three states.

According to Newsday, Blackman was on board a jet taxiing on the runway at Kennedy Airport Sunday night when federal agents ordered the plane back to the gate to arrest him. The flight was on the way to Guyana.

An Associated Press report said that federal agents were tipped off that Blackman planned to leave the country permanently and therefore ordered the jet bound for Guyana to return as it was taxiing for takeoff.

Officials say US$30,000 was stashed in the Far Rockaway doctor’s luggage.

Blackman was arraigned Monday in Central Islip on a charge of conspiracy to distribute oxycodone.

Records show he wrote 114 prescriptions in 2014 for about 3,800 oxycodone pills and nearly 2,500 prescriptions for about 365,000 pills last year.

“This volume of patients is consistent with a doctor’s participation in a conspiracy to illegally distribute oxycodone and not with a legitimate pain management practice,” an agent who had reviewed the case was quoted by Newsday.

Before his arrest, Blackman had maintained offices in Franklin Square, in Elmhurst, Queens, and in Brooklyn, Newsday added.

Blackman was recently named to Chair the board of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.

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FM
Mitwah posted:

This is a difficult case to prove, especially since he is a Doctor. Is the PPP/C behind his arrest?

Nice try. He rass gat busted. The man must have had a whole bunch of drug addicts who found a reliable source. They suspect he illegally prescribed vast amounts of oxycodone — 365,000 pills in 2015 — in a drug-dealing enterprise spanning three states.

FM
skeldon_man posted:
Mitwah posted:

This is a difficult case to prove, especially since he is a Doctor. Is the PPP/C behind his arrest?

Nice try. He rass gat busted. The man must have had a whole bunch of drug addicts who found a reliable source. They suspect he illegally prescribed vast amounts of oxycodone — 365,000 pills in 2015 — in a drug-dealing enterprise spanning three states.

Blackman was recently named to Chair the board of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.

Mitwah
Nehru posted:

He probably financed the PNC May Election. I remember well around that time plenty, plenty DRUGS used to be sent to the US.  Some got caught, the rest raised money for Election.

penny anti pill seller is going to finance an election...you folks are desperate to cast aspersions where ever you can!

Did those 100 or so RH coolies that got tagged for various real estate scams in their trade to fund the PPP? Did Ed the talking horse conned the state out of 51 million to fund the PPP? After all, he was their good friend and did indeed collect money for them at election time!

I am hoping and with good expectation that it will happen; that the APNU do exactly what the PPP did not do...make our place a better place to live. I hope they do it just so racists skunks like you will eat crow.

 

FM
Stormborn posted:
Nehru posted:

He probably financed the PNC May Election. I remember well around that time plenty, plenty DRUGS used to be sent to the US.  Some got caught, the rest raised money for Election.

penny anti pill seller is going to finance an election...you folks are desperate to cast aspersions where ever you can!

Did those 100 or so RH coolies that got tagged for various real estate scams in their trade to fund the PPP? Did Ed the talking horse conned the state out of 51 million to fund the PPP? After all, he was their good friend and did indeed collect money for them at election time!

I am hoping and with good expectation that it will happen; that the APNU do exactly what the PPP did not do...make our place a better place to live. I hope they do it just so racists skunks like you will eat crow.

 

Ed always supported the PPP

Nehru
Stormborn posted:
Nehru posted:

He probably financed the PNC May Election. I remember well around that time plenty, plenty DRUGS used to be sent to the US.  Some got caught, the rest raised money for Election.

penny anti pill seller is going to finance an election...you folks are desperate to cast aspersions where ever you can!

Did those 100 or so RH coolies that got tagged for various real estate scams in their trade to fund the PPP? Did Ed the talking horse conned the state out of 51 million to fund the PPP? After all, he was their good friend and did indeed collect money for them at election time!

I am hoping and with good expectation that it will happen; that the APNU do exactly what the PPP did not do...make our place a better place to live. I hope they do it just so racists skunks like you will eat crow.

 

We are all racists in our own world. Yes, you go look in the mirror. You hate Indians too the same way some people hate blacks. You seem to want to call people names like 'racists skunks' and you complain to the admin crying like a 4 year old for petty little stuff.

FM
Stormborn posted:
Nehru posted:

Ed always supported the PPP

The point is did he steal to fund his own greed or was it on account he need to fund the PPP?

That fellow above did the things he did no less than Ed did what he did because they are greedy and immoral.

WE agree again but that does not make Blackman a saint.  ED will pay for his mistake and Blackman will go to Jail for his.

Nehru
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:

Hey Gilbakka,

One of the coalition's biggest supporter in the diaspora has been charged in NY for a drug-related crime. Dr. Noel Blackman has been bangled and taken off a jet heading for Guyana. You all watchout. More PNC boys going down.  

Hey Billy Ram,

I just read the report Redux posted. Honestly, I am ignorant about American laws but it seems to me that Dr Noel Blackman could be slapped with a medical malpractice charge. I don't know if those oxywhatsitsname pills are classified as narcotics. Anyway, let the law take its course. This development may impact negatively on Dr Blackman's appointment as PHG head honcho.

BTW, Billy Ram, don't gloat too much today. The US DEA is opening its Guyana office tomorrow and some big PPP drug lord friends will be netted. Besides, the US has volunteered to share bank account info with the Guyana police upon request to prosecute money-laundering crooks. Again, some PPP cronies may be netted. 

FM
Mitwah posted:

This is a difficult case to prove, especially since he is a Doctor. Is the PPP/C behind his arrest?

I see your point, The Doctor reported the Doctor, PPP is responsible for Zika, for the Drought, for the high crime rate, for the high unemployment, for the total mismanagement of the government, and even more. So Who is in charge?? PPP???

K
Gilbakka posted:

I just read the report Redux posted. Honestly, I am ignorant about American laws but it seems to me that Dr Noel Blackman could be slapped with a medical malpractice charge. I don't know if those oxywhatsitsname pills are classified as narcotics. Anyway, let the law take its course. This development may impact negatively on Dr Blackman's appointment as PHG head honcho.

BTW, Billy Ram, don't gloat too much today. The US DEA is opening its Guyana office tomorrow and some big PPP drug lord friends will be netted. Besides, the US has volunteered to share bank account info with the Guyana police upon request to prosecute money-laundering crooks. Again, some PPP cronies may be netted. 

they are "legal" narcotics . . . very powerful opioids

prescriptions written for this class of drugs are under intense scrutiny, especially because of focus on the exploding heroin use/addiction recently in middle and upper class America

FM
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redux posted:
Gilbakka posted:

I just read the report Redux posted. Honestly, I am ignorant about American laws but it seems to me that Dr Noel Blackman could be slapped with a medical malpractice charge. I don't know if those oxywhatsitsname pills are classified as narcotics. Anyway, let the law take its course. This development may impact negatively on Dr Blackman's appointment as PHG head honcho.

BTW, Billy Ram, don't gloat too much today. The US DEA is opening its Guyana office tomorrow and some big PPP drug lord friends will be netted. Besides, the US has volunteered to share bank account info with the Guyana police upon request to prosecute money-laundering crooks. Again, some PPP cronies may be netted. 

they are "legal" narcotics . . . very powerful opioids

prescriptions written for this class of drugs are under intense scrutiny, especially because of focus on the exploding heroin use/addiction recently in middle and upper class America

Thank you, sir.

FM

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