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Drug Dealer Doud Opens Trial in SDNY
Blaming DEA, Downplaying RDC Duty
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 18 – A major opioids jury
trial is set to begin on
January 18 in the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York.
Inner City Press will cover
the trial.
Laurence
F. Doud III, the former CEO of
Rochester Drug Co-operative,
was indicted in 2019, and the
case was assigned to District
Judge George B. Daniels, while
will preside over the
trial.
On January
16, two days before jury
selection, Doud's lawyer
Robert C. Gottlieb wrote to
Judge Daniels to oppose
admission of the testimony of
Barbara Castro, an opioids
addict.
Assistant US
Attorneys Thomas Burnett,
Nicolas Roos and Alexandra
Rothman had indicated they
intend to call Castro "as
early as Tuesday, January 18,
2022, in the afternoon."
But Day 1 went
long. Inner City Press live
tweeted, some here:
AUSA accusing
Team Doud of putting the US on
trial.
First US witness
against Doud is a former DEA
agent, now working in a
different job in Virginia. "I
dealt with the registrants in
the field."
Assistant US
Attorney: What did you do in
that role? Witness: I was the
chief. I went to industry
sponsored conferences
AUSA: What
is Subsys? Witness: An opioid
spray for break-through pain.
AUSA: Fentanyl? Witness:
Yes. It's very
dangerous. AUSA: What's
this? Witness: A bottle of
Oxy.
AUSA:
What's this? Witness: A chart
showing the supply chain... It
shows how the drug gets from
the manufacturer to the user.
Inner City Press
It's
approaching 4:30 pm and Doud's
lawyer's cross continues
(still no user as Inner City
Press reported on yesterday)
Defense: Do you
agree that a distributor has
no way to know if a pharmacy's
info is accurate & has
no obligation to
investigate a prescription?
Defense confronts
witness with prior testimony,
then asks: Isn't it the case
the distributors often use
outside consultants to conduct
investigations? Witness:
Yes...
The case is US v.
Doud, 19-cr-285
(Daniels)
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