Former Guyana Health Minister Dr Noel Blackman was today sentenced in a New York court to 50 months imprisonment and three years of supervised release over an oxycodone conspiracy.
He was also ordered to forfeit US$536,200 in illegal proceeds, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
The US government has argued that he be jailed for 71 months which was the upper limit of the sentence range.
On February 25th, 2016 a US grand jury indicted Blackman and Wascar Castillo, the former office manager of a Queens pain management office where Blackman previously worked for conspiracy to distribute and distribution of oxycodone.
Castillo who was jointly charged in New York with Blackman for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone has been jailed for 36 months. His sentence was handed down on March 31, 2017.