"The defendants illegally distributed more than 500,000 tablets of oxycodone over a five-year period, pills with a street value of $10- and $15 million," said Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York.
Prosecutors and the Drug Enforcement Administration say pharmacist Lilian Wieckowski and her husband, Marcin Jakacki, illegally sold 760,000 Oxycodone pills, more than 400,000 without any doctor's prescription.
Their Chopin Chemists pharmacies on Manhattan Avenue in Brooklyn and Fresh Pond Road in Queens were allegedly the center of their operation.
"Using her position to sell hundreds of thousands of Oxy tablets to dealers for further re-sale on the street, fueling opioid abuse and addiction," said James Hunt, the special agent in charge of the DEA in New York. "From DEA's perspective, Wieckowski is nothing more than a white-collar drug dealer."
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