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SDNY Nurse Who Wrote Oxy Scripts to 12
Fictitious Patients Gets 4 Months For
Redacted Reasons
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
August 20 – For
prescribing
oxycodone to
at least 12
patients who
did not exist,
nurse practitioner
Sharon
Washington-Bhamre
was sentenced
to four months in
prison on
August 20 by U.S.
District Court
for the Southern
District of
New York
Judge Gregory
H. Woods. She
had signed a
plea agreement
with a
stipulated
range of 70 to
87 months, but
the government
in writing
under a
sentence below
that. It came
out to four
months.
The
government's
sentencing
submission, by
Assistant US
Attorney Elizabeth
A. Hanft, has
a number of
redaction, so
it is not easy
to know the
basis of the
Office's push
for leniency
in this case
and not
others. Her
lawyer's
submission,
with REDACTED
PORTION typed
in in bold
letters,
leaves in
references
to "Big Ken."
Has the government
identified
this Ken?
Judge
Woods said that
despite the
trauma that
was redacted,
the Oxy
was a serious
abuse of
trust, and he
was not sure
that the
defendant
would not
recidivate,
even if the
felony
conviction
would make it
difficult to
do so as a
nurse. Self-surrender
was set for
September 3 at
noon.
Previously,
before Judge
Woods: Wander
Reyes
came to the US from
the Dominican
Republic three
years ago
and tried to
find work.
What he found,
and on July 30
was sentenced
to 30 months in
prison for,
was a
conspiracy to
try to rob 15
kilos of heroin
using, among
other things,
a fake police
car.
Before Judge
Woods, Wander
Reyes emphasized
that he is
young and this
just sort of
happened.
Judge Woods, usually
moved by
defendant's
statements, took
issue with
this one.
These things
do not just
happened, he
said, mention zip
ties and fake
guns.
Assistant US
Attorney Celia
V. Woods added
an arrest of
Wander Reyes
for the rape
of a 12 year old.
Judge Woods
said there has
been no
conviction so
he would not
give that
weight. Wander Reyes'
defense
lawyer Zachary
Taylor argued
among other
things that
since Reyes
will in all
probability be
deported after
he serves his
time in US
prison, he
won't pose a
danger "to
Americans."
Still, even
while Judge
Woods said
he expects
an ICE
detainer to be
filed against
Wander
Reyes,
he imposed
three years of
supervised
release. Will
New York State
proceeding on the
rape of 12
year old
charge while
Wander Reyes is in
Federal
prison, or
wait? Or just
forget about it?
Inner City Press
will continue
to follow
these cases.
This case is USA v.
Wander Reyes,
19-cr-192
(GHW).
Back on
July 23 with
the courtroom
nearly full
for a mere
scheduling
proceeding for
Michael
Avenatti,
three stories
beneath a
man was
pleading
guilty and
agreeing to 87
months in
prison in an
nearly empty
courtroom.
There were
only Judge Naomi Reice
Buchwald and
her deputy,
one Assistant
US Attorney,
defendant
Polanco, his
interpreter
and his lawyer
- and Inner
City Press.
The allocution
was not as
smooth as it
might have
been.
Asked
to confirm
that he was
pleading guilty,
Mr. Polanco
said, "What
else can I
do?" This took
some
unwinding: you
could go to
trial.
He said
in Spanish, Tengo
que
ir a juico,
which means, I
have to go to
trial. But one
could also
translate it, I
have to be
brought to justice.
He sold
heroin and
fentanyl to an
undercover
agent. And on
November 5 at
the
same 2:30 pm
he will be
sentenced.
Inner City
Press will
stay on this
and other
cases in the
SDNY.
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