Minority Professionals Attacked

How about taking out ten minority medical professionals in one fell swoop?

This was the outcome in Northern Texas in 2021.  I learned about this case last week through the daughter of pharmacist Ethel Oyekunle-Bubu, who is incarcerated at FMC Carswell. She, like all the others, was convicted through government misconduct and the propaganda-filled minds of the jurors. So if you know of any medical professional who has been attacked by the government and they aren’t on our list of professionals attacked, please inform us so we can add them and possibly write about their case.

In this case in Texas, all of those charged were minority.  Minorities are the most targeted professionals in this arena.  The government allows medical schools and residencies to bring foreign nationals in to work as slave labor through their programs.  Then, if they stay in the US—which they usually do—they use the CSA to charge them with a crime, convict them, and send them to more slave labor in a prison for years, garnishing all their income since coming here. This must end. We must repeal the CSA and stop these attacks on medicine and the patients we serve.

The Innocent Victims

Medical Practitioners include:

• Caesar Mark Capistrano, 64, oncologist and owner of G. Medical, a family medicine clinic in Fort Worth, TX and Lancaster Oncology in Lancaster, Tx. He was convicted at trial in January, 2021 on three counts of conspiracy to dispense a controlled substance and two counts of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance. Capistrano is an oncologist who went to medical school in the Philippines. He had been practicing in Texas for 22 years. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
• Tameka Lachelle Noel, MD, 39, pleaded guilty in Nov, 2020 to conspiracy to dispense a controlled substance and was sentenced to eight years in prison.
• Ngozika Tracey Njoku, nurse practitioner, pleaded guilty in Nov, 2020 to conspiracy to dispense a controlled substance and was sentenced to six months in prison.

Clinic staff convicted includes:

• Shirley Ann Williams, clinic office manager, 51, pleaded guilty in Nov, 2020 to conspiracy to disperse a controlled substance and was sentenced to six years in prison.
• Latonya Ann Tucker, office staff
  Pleaded guilty in Nov, 2020 to  conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance and was sentenced to five years in prison

Pharmacists convicted include:

• Wilkinson Oloyede Thomas, of Calvary Pharmacy in Cedar Hill, TX was convicted at trial on 1/28/2021 of three counts of conspiracy to dispense controlled substances and one count of possession with intent to distribute controlled substances.
• Christopher Kalejaiye Ajayi, of Remcare Pharmacy in Arlington, TX was convicted at trial on March 2, 2021 of three counts of conspiracy to dispense controlled substances, and two counts of possession with intent to distribute controlled substances.
• Bartholomew Anny Akubukwe, of Beco Pharmacy in Arlington, TX pleaded guilty in Nov, 2020 to conspiracy to dispense a controlled substance and was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
• Nedal Helmi Naser, of Brandy Pharmacy in Garland, TX pleaded guilty on March 16, 2021 to conspiracy to dispense a controlled substance.
• Ethel Oyekunle-Bubu, of Ethel’s Pharmacy in Grand Prairie, TX was convicted at trial on Jan. 28, 2021 of three counts of conspiracy to dispense a controlled substance and two counts of possession with intent to distribute controlled substances.

These medical professionals were targets in DEA Dallas’ “Operation Wasted Daze”. The charges were for prescriptions for hydrocodone, oxycodone, alprazolam, carisoprodol, zolpidem, phentermine, and promethazine with codeine, all legal prescription medicines per the FDA, to legitimate patients. The government got them convicted by lying to the jury, stating that they “knew” that the drugs were being diverted for illegal use on the streets.  But those people that were seen, evaluated, diagnosed, and treated appeared in the clinic with pain complaints.  No doctor has a crystal ball to know a person’s intent or that he/she is lying. But with the propaganda against opioids, jurors see doctors as “drug-pushers” and therefore criminals.

The real criminals are:

Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
Eduardo A. Chávez, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s Dallas Field Division.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Laura Montes and Shawn Smith, the prosecutors in the case.