by newera_212 » Sat Dec 10, 2022 8:22 pm
Russo and Albanese showing the downside of being made men and reputed members of a crime family here. They got really really unlucky with this.
Very hard to believe there were wires up and running on them and they were being investigated. I'm guessing the younger Staten Island guys were, and Russo & Albanese got caught up on their wires. It doesn't sound like the oxycodone scripts were fraudulently obtained. As 77 year old men, they probably do meet some of the legit criteria on paper for getting a script. 1 script each, per month, for 8 months? No real volume here, no pill mill, no crooked doctor, no conspiracy to obtain multiple scripts each month. The fact that the doctor wasn't named leads me to believe it was a legit, regular doctor. This is a case of diversion, not a grand organized crime drug trafficking conspiracy.
No mention either that the 2 of them had anything to do with the "adderall, suboxone, klonopin" part of the business either. They're definitely not giving prescriptions of Adderall to people in their 70s and I'd bet money these two guys don't even know what it is. Maybe at best they were just getting money kicked up to them by those younger Staten Island guys if there was some sort of associate type of relationship there.
If this were any other 77 year old living off of SSI, handing over their little script to someone each month for some extra cash, I wonder what the punishment for that would be. Because that's a pretty common thing, and we basically never hear about anyone like that getting caught. Russo and Albanese being who they are is what fucked them over here.
Russo and Albanese showing the downside of being made men and reputed members of a crime family here. They got really really unlucky with this.
Very hard to believe there were wires up and running on them and they were being investigated. I'm guessing the younger Staten Island guys were, and Russo & Albanese got caught up on their wires. It doesn't sound like the oxycodone scripts were fraudulently obtained. As 77 year old men, they probably do meet some of the legit criteria on paper for getting a script. 1 script each, per month, for 8 months? No real volume here, no pill mill, no crooked doctor, no conspiracy to obtain multiple scripts each month. The fact that the doctor wasn't named leads me to believe it was a legit, regular doctor. This is a case of diversion, not a grand organized crime drug trafficking conspiracy.
No mention either that the 2 of them had anything to do with the "adderall, suboxone, klonopin" part of the business either. They're definitely not giving prescriptions of Adderall to people in their 70s and I'd bet money these two guys don't even know what it is. Maybe at best they were just getting money kicked up to them by those younger Staten Island guys if there was some sort of associate type of relationship there.
If this were any other 77 year old living off of SSI, handing over their little script to someone each month for some extra cash, I wonder what the punishment for that would be. Because that's a pretty common thing, and we basically never hear about anyone like that getting caught. Russo and Albanese being who they are is what fucked them over here.