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Opioids Trial Features JPMorgan Chase
Banker Reselling Oxy w/ Insurance Fraud
Deal
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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August 26 – Purificacion
Cristobal is on trial for
having run a clinic in The
Bronx at which she wrote
prescriptions for Oxocodone,
Xanax and Adderall for
patients she never examined,
many of whom turned around and
sold the drugs to other
addicts.
One such patient
who re-sold drugs, Danilla
LoCicero, testified on the
afternoon of August 26, 2022
in the trial before U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Katharine Polk Failla.
Inner City Press was present
in Courtroom 318 for the
direct, cross and re-direct
examination.
Ms.
LoCicero began by saying she
has worked for JP Morgan Chase
for 17 years. She then said
that all of the Oxycodone she
was prescribed by "Doctor
Cristobal" she gave to her
common law husband Peter
Maisonave to re-sell for cash.
She said
Maisonave was suffering some
anxiety and depression due to
being out of work and
considering back surgury which
he ultimately had. The
oxy he didn't sell, he crushed
up and snorted. LoCicero asked
to be sent to a pharmacy that
provided the oxy in crushable
form.
Somehow,
while still working for Chase
Bank, LoCicero began working
in Cristobal's clinic,
resubmitted bills that had
been rejected to insurance
companies. Her pay was in
drugs prescribed without any
visit.
She was
offered a deal in which she
will not be prosecuted for
possession of the drugs with
intent to distribute, and
insurance fraud, as long as
she testifies truthfully
against Cristobal.
The cross
examination, while focusing on
2006 spine MRIs to argue the
drugs may have been necessary,
did not get into the insurance
fraud or work at JP Morgan
Chase.
When LoCicero
left the witness stand and
courtroom, a man who appeared
to be her lawyer followed her
out.
The case is US v.
Cristobal, US v. Cristobal,
20-cr-463 (Failla).
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