Woman Gets 4 Years for Running Oxy Ring Out of Her Brooklyn Pharmacies

GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN — A woman who was running a massive oxycodone ring out of two small pharmacies she owned with her husband in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and Ridgewood, Queens, was sentenced to four years in jail Wednesday, according to Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for Manhattan.

Lilian Jackacki, 50, pled guilty in July to illegally distributing at least 100,000 tablets of oxycodone between 2010 and 2015 from her storefront pharmacies, which were called "Chopin Chemists," Bhara's office said.

Jackacki faced a maximum sentence of 20 years.

"Through her pharmacies in Queens and Brooklyn, Lilian Jackacki dumped 100,000 illegally diverted oxycodone pills into the city’s streets," Bharara said in a statement. "Driven by greed, Jackacki abused her pharmacy license, helping to fuel the opioid abuse epidemic that is ravaging too many of our communities. For her crimes, Jackacki will spend four years in prison and forfeit her ill-gotten gains."

Jackacki and her husband, 36-year-old Marcin Jackacki, moved more than 500,000 pills worth between $10 million and $15 million over five years, according to the court indictment.

Their pharmacies, Chopin Chemists, were renamed "Sedona Nutrition" in 2014, but they were still under the same ownership, prosecutors said. The Greenpoint location is at 911 Manhattan Ave. near Greenpoint Avenue, and the Ridgewood location is at 6619 Fresh Pond Rd.

The Jackackis used the money they made moving pills to pay for a multimillion-dollar Greenpoint home, Land Rover and Porsche, the indictment said. They allegedly made fake prescriptions out to names like "Chanel" and "Coach."

Lilian Jackacki also over-billed Medicare by more than $500,000 in reimbursement claims, the sentencing statement said. She was ordered by the court to pay $800,000 and a restitution of $520,000.

Marcin Jackacki's sentencing has not yet been released. He was charged with conspiracy to distribute narcotics and laundering the proceeds from the oxycodone sales. His maximum sentence is also 20 years.

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