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

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