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Friday, November 15, 2019
Vol. 7, No. 46
SENIOR LIVING
CAR CRASHES INTO FLOWER HILL POOL
REP. KING TO NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION
PAGES 27-32, 41-46
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Roslyn doc indicted on drug charges
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Anesthesiologist accused of illegally prescribing oxycodone, methadone BY R O S E W E L D ON An anesthesiologist who practices in Roslyn was indicted in federal court on Thursday for illegally prescribing oxycodone. Dr. Tameshwar Ammar was charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone, and two counts of distribution of oxycodone. Ammar pleaded not guilty to all three counts. Court documents allege that between 2013 and 2019 Ammar illegally prescribed more than 19,000 oxycodone pills to two individuals, identified in the indictment as John Doe 1 and John Doe 2. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Ammar prescribed over 8,000 pills to John Doe 1 with the knowledge that he would be reselling them, and that he prescribed over 11,000 pills to John Doe 2, even after the latter was admitted to a psychiatric clinic. John Doe 2 would die in 2019 of a mix ofoxycodone, methadone,
which attorneys also claim Ammar prescribed, and ketamine, prosecutors said. Richard P. Donoghue, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, announced the indictment on Thursday. “As alleged, Ammar prescribed thousands of highly addictive opioids without a legitimate medical purpose, which makes him a drug dealer and, sadly, in this case one of his customers lost their life,” Donoghue said. A biography in the Fall 2008 issue of Elements Magazine claims that Ammar, who graduated from SUNY Stony Brook’s School of Medicine at age 22, was the youngest graduate in SUNY medical school history at the time. The magazine says he also completed research and served as chief resident at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. Ammar’s practice, Age Management Associates at 55 Bryant Ave. in Roslyn, was reached by phone, but the person who answered declined to comment.
PHOTO BY STEVE ROSENFIELD
My Father’s Place owner and operator Michael “Eppy” Epstein, right, with Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards in an undated photo. The venue and Epstein are the subject of an upcoming documentary, currently in post-production. See story on page 23.
Old Westbury’s Butts begins to say goodbye BY R O S E W E L D ON
University of New York College at Old Westbury. Butts’ 20-year tenure as He may be leaving in January, but the farewells have president was celebrated at already begun for The Rev. “An Evening and Conversation Calvin O. Butts III, the soon-de- with Calvin O. Butts, III” on parting president of the State Saturday, Nov. 2, where he was
interviewed by journalist Randall Pinkston about his careers in education, non-profit work and as pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City. Continued on Page 69
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