Prosecutors accused Dr. Daniel Alberto Carpman of “masquerading in a lab coat as a drug dealer” who made millions off prescribing mind-boggling numbers of Oxycodone pills to patients who sold the painkillers to a ring of hustlers that cashed in on street sales.
The Miami doctor’s defense lawyers countered that he ran a legitimate pain-management clinic but “got played” as an “easy mark” by the ring leaders of the black-market Oxy trade in Hialeah.
After a two-week trial that ended with closing arguments on Tuesday afternoon, it took only four hours during the evening for the 12-member Miami federal jury to conclude that Carpman was guilty of conspiring with the street dealers to distribute more than 2 million Oxycodone pills to thousands of patients who were in on the pill-mill scheme that lasted from 2018 to 2023…