Extra: As Global Fake Pharma Fentanyl Scheme Indicted 1 Free on Bond 2 Pled Week Before
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by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Sept 30 – A global counterfeit deadly pharmaceuticals ring was indicted on September 30 and US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams held a press conference.
Inner City Press, which closely covers SDNY and it Magistrates Court, went and asked a related case of one of the cited pill mills in The Bronx, two of the four defendants in which were allowed to plead guilty on September 24. That case is US v. Espinal, et al., 23-cr-577 (LJL).
Whether the two escaped the "causing death" change, and why, remains unclear.
Later on September 30 named co-defendant Alba Gonzalez appeared in SDNY Mag Court. The prosecutors asked for detention but the defense said she is named only as receiving an email.
The judge ordered release on $300,000 bond with conditions; the AUSA did not ask for a stay to appeal to District Judge John P. Cronan. Inner City Press will continue to cover the case.
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