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No matter how lush the grass fields are, if you don't have the right breed, your herd of cattle will not grow beyond their breed species size.

Enter Dr Okafor, a 65 yr old medical doctor operating a personal practice in the US which he has acquired citizenship after years of being a legal resident and practicing medical practitioner.

Okafor was arrested by the authorities for turning his personal practice into a pill mill by dispensing highly controlled pain killers and anti depressant medication to street side drug peddlers.

Is it America's economy that drove Dr Okafor into a life of crime ?

Okafor being a medical practitioner falls under the category of the 1% highly skilled and well paid professionals in the US. Okafor moved to the US to seek a better working environment were wages for his skill are far higher than what most countries offer their own medical practitioners. Okafor is also in a first world functioning society that is the most prosperous that humanity has ever created since the inception of man on earth.

So what excuse drove Dr Okafor to reduce his practice to a mere street drug dealer?

A 65-year-old Nigerian doctor, Ndubuisi Joseph Okafor, was found guilty by a federal jury in U.S. District Court in connection with illegally distributing prescriptions for narcotics in exchange for cash from his Northwest Washington D.C. medical clinic.
Okafor, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, was convicted on Friday, March 21, 2025, the US Department of Justice announced in a statement.

The jury found Okafor guilty of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances (outside the practice of medicine), maintaining a drug-involved premises, and 22 counts of unlawful distribution of controlled substances (oxycodone and promethazine with codeine). U.S. District Judge John D. Bates scheduled a sentencing hearing for June 20, 2025.

According to court documents and evidence at trial, between May 2021 and April of 2023, Okafor was the sole practitioner and owner of Okafor Medical Associates, an internal medicine clinic in Northwest, Washington, D.C. The USAO and FBI began investigating Okafor for illegal distribution of controlled substances after it received information from law enforcement agencies nationwide regarding prescriptions from Okafor being connected to local drug trafficking networks.

Between February 18, 2022, and November 30, 2022, the FBI sent confidential sources and undercover agents into Okafor’s medical practice for walk-in appointments. Each individual was prescribed opioids by Okafor after minimal examination. Further investigation revealed that Okafor was operating a nationwide drug distribution scheme, whereby he would prescribe opioids to numerous individuals using false identities, whom Okafor knew to be diverting the medication.

Okafor’s conduct spanned at least 45 states and resulted in hundreds of thousands of units of oxycodone and promethazine with codeine liquid prescribed nationwide. Okafor was convicted of distribution of opioids to undercover sources, numerous uncharged co-conspirators, and to a civilian patient J.V. Okafor was also convicted of conspiracy and maintaining a drug-involved premises. Evidence at trial further established that, after Okafor was notified by the D.C. Board of Health that J.V.’s family member filed a complaint against him, he created backdated medical records for J.V. in an attempt to justify his prescribing.

The investigation also resulted in the immediate suspension of Okafor’s DEA registration number in September 2023 as he was deemed to be a threat to public health and safety.



Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/jury-finds-physician-guilty-operating-pill-mill-his-dc-medical-practice

DomPerignon:
No matter how lush the grass fields are, if you don't have the right breed, your herd of cattle will not grow beyond their breed species size.

Enter Dr Okafor, a 65 yr old medical doctor operating a personal practice in the US which he has acquired citizenship after years of being a legal resident and practicing medical practitioner.

Okafor was arrested by the authorities for turning his personal practice into a pill mill by dispensing highly controlled pain killers and anti depressant medication to street side drug peddlers.

Is it America's economy that drove Dr Okafor into a life of crime ?

Okafor being a medical practitioner falls under the category of the 1% highly skilled and well paid professionals in the US. Okafor moved to the US to seek a better working environment were wages for his skill are far higher than what most countries offer their own medical practitioners. Okafor is also in a first world functioning society that is the most prosperous that humanity has ever created since the inception of man on earth.

So what excuse drove Dr Okafor to reduce his practice to a mere street drug dealer?

"Okafor is also in a first world functioning society that is the most prosperous that humanity has ever created since the inception of man on earth."
This statement right here shows that the poster is not in tune with reality. By what standards did you come to make this conclusions?
By ignorance I guess, read books before making outrageous claims, engage learned and exposed minds before coming to outrageous conclusions.

"First world", "second world" and "third world" are names used to refer to countries that align with the US during the cold war, those that aligned with Russia and those that were neutral respectively.
Those who brought the words are no longer using it and scrap it out but those who dóñ't understand what it means are busy using it.
The irony of this statement is that most of you using it don't even know when and how to use it.
It's really pàthètic.

This is not making any sense

Seems you get personal Beef with Dr. Okafor.
What an Epistle....you even highlighted your write up.

Tribal bigot . wetin concern you and US Dr okafor . Gbegboruń