NEW YORK NEWS
November 20, 2013
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Number: 212-337-2906
Long Island Nurse Practitioner and Brooklyn Podiatrist Plead Guilty to Illegally Distributing Oxycodone
Defendant Deslouches funneled more than 422,000 oxycodone pills to drug dealers and addicts
NOV 20 (BROOKLYN, N.Y.)  - Rools Deslouches, a Brentwood, New York, nurse practitioner, pled guilty today in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York to illegally distributing the highly addictive painkiller oxycodone to customers, whom the defendant knew were drug dealers and addicts, without performing any meaningful medical examination. When sentenced, Deslouches faces up to 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine. Deslouches also agreed to forfeit more than $150,000 in illegal proceeds from his criminal activity.