California doctor dubbed 'Candyman' convicted of illegal prescriptions

28 August 2015   Julio Gabriel Diaz, 67, was convicted of 79 counts of distributing controlled substances after a two-and-a-half week trial in federal court, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles.

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AMERICAN JUSTICE NOTEBOOK

“CANDYMAN” FACING UP TO 1,360 YEARS IN PRISON FOR ILLEGAL DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS

LA Times 
Dr. Julio Gabriel Diaz is arrested at his Santa Barbara office in 2012. On Friday, a federal jury found Diaz, 67, guilty on 79 counts of writing prescriptions for powerful painkillers such as OxyContin and Dilaudid without a legitimate medical purpose. (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)

The Inquisitr - ‎Aug 29, 2015‎
In 2012, Diaz was arrested and pleaded guilty to 11 charges but later withdrew his plea, saying he was ill advised about the sentence he was facing and unaware that federal prosecutors would argue that his prescriptions could be tied to 20 people who died.

‘Candy Man’ doctor convicted of prescribing unneeded narcotics

Why Did Painkiller Trafficking Arrest of ‘The Candy Man’ Julio Gabriel Diaz Take So Long?

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Documents Reveal Depths Of DEA Prostitution Scandal In Colombia

Wednesday January 1, 2014:  While prostitution scandals in Colombia are associated with the Secret Service the DEA was also getting in on the action.

Law Enforcement.  Sleazy Details of DEA Cartagena Prostitution Scandal Emerge. A FOIA

request from Foreign Policy has resulted in the release of a Justice Department Office of the Inspector General report on the scandal surrounding Secret Service and DEA agents who accompanied President Obama to the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, in April 2012. The report is full of juicy, sleazy detail on agents making dozens of calls to prostitutes on their government-issued cell phones, searching for dates with transvestite prostitutes, and seeking to redefine "sex" as not including paying hookers to masturbate them and "prostitution" as not what they had engaged in by paying hookers for sex acts. The OIG said that latter claim defied "common sense and legal definitions."
Jan 3, 2014. A Culture of Corruption in Both Homeland Security and the Department of Justice.  A new report has been released by the DEA regarding a culture of corruption within the DEA. That report indicated that special agents in the DEA have used prostitutes, used government issued cell phones to arrange meetings with prostitutes, and then took the prostitutes to government furnished apartments. Those agents apparently erased information from their government issued cell phones when they became aware of the investigation.

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READ MORE: MAY 6, 2012 Dumb or dumber. How dumb were they?  
May 22, 2012 New revelations implicate DEA officers in a separate prostitution scandal in Colombia.
MAY 22, 2012 Homeland Security, Lieberman, Chaney, McCain, Palin, Tripp
24 April 2012 Were Colombian prostitutes Russian spies? Sen. Chuck Grassley suggested there may be more than meets the eye to the alleged sex workers.
Dec 31: DEA USING YOUR CHRISTIAN TAX DOLLARS TO HUNT TRANNYS IN COLOMBIA
DECEMBER 31, 2013 DEA's Colombian scandal Deepens:  Transvestites, 'Erotic Massages,' and Metadata
Jan 10, 2013 DEA agents arranged prostitute for Secret Service agent.
Jan 11, 2013 DEA agents helped hire prostitute for Secret Service agent, report says

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Dec. 23, 2013 Malpractice suit accuses 'Candy Man’ Dr. Julio Diaz of facilitating addiction and overdoses  
READ MORE:   Jan 1, 2014 Julio Gabriel Diaz, AKA The 'Candy Man'


Jan 2, 2014.  Tacadena Family Files $10 Million Wrongful Death Claim.

Jan 1, 2014 This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
Jan 1, 2014 Colorado Makes History with First Legal Retail Marijuana Sales
Dec 31, 2013 Judge Strikes Down Florida Welfare Drug Test Law
Dec 13 2013 Michigan Senate Republicans Scapegoat Poor With Welfare Drug Test Bill

on December 11, 2013 by Daniel Hopsicker:
 Feds Raid CIA-connected air charter in Fort Lauderdale

Julio Gabriel Diaz, AKA The 'Candy Man'

DOES CRIME PAY?   For some it pays.....

For others.....      Dr. Julio ‘Candyman’ Diaz Faces 200 Years in Prison

Man Accused of Over-Prescribing Pain Pills Under House Arrest in Goleta

HUFFINGTON POST  01/5/12    Julio Gabriel Diaz, AKA The 'Candy Man' of Santa Barbara, California

The tragic lives of his many more victims are told in secret, cries for help that can never be fully told.  They just move on to another con to feed the habit, constantly  hiding their shame and lies.  Lost souls with heaps of never ending sorrows.  A life of crime is the only way to survive.  There are other Candy Men and pimps (boyfriends) to get them through until the next pain, the next fix.

Drug Bust Frazier Park

The secret world of methamphetamine users and dealers

 To grasp the significance of the Pennsylvania attorney general’s bust of a suspected major methamphetamine trafficking network with Bucks County ties, first you must understand the insular world of its users and distributors.
Meth, as it’s commonly known, isn’t a drug typically sold on street corners, but has a loyal following among mostly longtime users and dealers who operate largely in secret, according to those in law enforcement.
Typically the drug is made in small batches in small labs in out-of-the-way places. Often users will make the drug mainly for their own use, and sell some to feed their habit for the powerful and highly addictive synthetic stimulant, drug agents say.
The people who make and sell meth tend to be older, white men living in rural or suburban communities with an established customer base, law enforcement officials say. Like the people they sell to, dealers and distributors find the drug hard to resist, and many return to selling it after they’ve been arrested and served prison time, the drug agents say.  READ MORE HERE....

 MUG SHOT.  LARGELY IN SECRET WOELLERT

"operate largely in secret" is key, may be more so in a lovely little town like Santa Barbara.  They are in secret and in some of the most enchanting areas, who would ever guess?  They ingratiate themselves as if they can be the best until they start jonesing.  The courts, rehab do little to end the vicious cycle they are locked into.     

Sheriff’s Detectives Arrest Six

MUG SHOT.

STAY OFF THE PIPE BOEFF  

Rescued cat tests positive for methamphetamine 

3/18/13 SANTA BARBARA, Calif.  Deputies found nearly 2,000 pounds of marijuana and a panga style fishing boat on Arroya Camada Beach in Santa Barbara Sunday

What is happening with Michael Stinchfield?  The Santa Barbara businessman is charged with 13 felonies

3/25/13 Infamous Local Slumlord Busted for Burglary Santa Barbara – Dario Louis Pini, 63.

OXYCONTIN ARRESTS - SEATTLE AND LOS ANGELES - DEA LINK
2/28/13 Massive West Coast OxyContin Sweep

3/20/13 Sens. Leahy and Paul Introduce Bill to Undo Mandatory Minimum Sentencing

3/6/13 The upcoming trial in Houston of Rudi Dekkers for drug trafficking  has been pushed back and may now never happen, according to a lawyer close to the case.  3/8/13 Who Killed Hugo Chavez?

1/22/13 Lethal batch of super-strength ecstasy blamed for deaths of FIVE young people

 Inside Mexico's drug war: Heart-wrenching images of poverty and violence capture true misery of a country ravaged by cartels

Cocaine Brain?

One little story about a toxic substance that causes serious deterioration and can do chronic damage to the brain.

Cognitive Decline Tied To Chronic Use Of Illicit Drug

Always paranoid they would bust his chop shop no matter how well he could hide.

 Rich man, poor man, methamphetamine

Jenni Rivera's Connections

The following Madcow article is significant and would be huge if media was doing it's job:
EXCLUSIVE: Drug Traffickers Own Jenni Rivera Death Plane
Posted on December 12, 2012 by Daniel Hopsicker

WHO REALLY OWNED THE PLANE WHOSE CRASH KILLED JENNIE RIVERA?

50-year old Christian Eduardo Esquino-Nunez is the owner—at least, on paper—of Starwood Management LLC, the Las Vegas aviation charter company which is the registered owner of the crashed Lear jet.  
It is, at best, a legal fiction.
Virtually nothing about him should be taken at face value.  And with good reason: he lives in a web of international intrigue.

One example: Eduardo Esquino-Nunez was part of a conspiracy last year to smuggle Moammar Khadafy’s son, Saadi Gaddafi, into Mexico.
He was contacted, he said, by a representative of a Canadian developer who asked for a Mexican-registered aircraft charter to North Africa.

ONE MONTH LATER:

Explosive report claims that singer Jenni Rivera was involved with DRUG CARTELS before she died in plane crash  10 January 2013 By DAILY MAIL REPORTER  

Singer and reality star Jenni Rivera had ties to one of Mexico's most notorious drug cartels before she was killed last month in a plane crash, a shocking report has claimed.
A witness reportedly came forward with claims that the Mexican-American performer, known as 'La Diva de la Banda,' was connected to the Beltran-Leyva cartel, which is regarded as one of the country's most feared criminal syndicates.

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The horror of Meth

Before-and-after pictures reveal shocking transformation in faces of users hooked on deadly drug. The photos, that show a shocking Dorian Gray-like deterioration, were compiled from mug shots of drug users that were arrested repeatedly over the years.

How Meth Effects the Brain and the Body

A sad case of Meth Mouth.  When you have money or good credit, you can repair some of the damages.  Lindsay Lohan Skipped Probation to Get Her Filthy Teeth Fixed.   WTF is going on here, early stage meth mouth?  Yet another celebrity victim, Lisa Robin Kelly, of That 70s Show.  Castmates: Topher Grace, Laura Prepon, Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, Kurtwood Smith, Debra Jo Rupp, Danny Masterson, Topher Grace, Laura Prepon, Wilmer Valderrama to name a few.

Britney Spears is a Breaking Bad fan?  Did she or didn't she?

The Jael Strauss story blows away all those “Faces of Meth” ads.  Some of our local dopes and meth heads have the money to keep up appearances yet the slow decay will show up over time.  (bad, bad boys, too - William Paxson - William Konrad - Jerry Boeff - Paul Woellert).  Not everyone is as lucky with the looks department and shades can only cover up so much.  Drugs are fairly available behind bars but for the lucky ones they can stay off while they do their time.  Other  bodies have been known to deteriorate more rapid as you can observe if unfortunate enough to watch them try and work.

The playing field of Santa Barbara is not equal in the world of Rich man, poor man, methamphetamine. That is a grim fact of life. It was recently stated in a local news report that the Mexican cartels have taken over the local street gangs.  What will that mean for other dealers and abusers?  It doesn't get much more bloody, outside of a war, than the escalation in Mexico.  On our local shores the War on Drugs has been kicked up a few notches with the recent murder of a federal law enforcement officer.  We don't see how it helps when the privileged use illegal slave labor from Mexico or the US to do their dirty work.

Meth users often end up in the justice system.  From Hollywood actors to lawyers, from race car drivers and minor league baseball players to children of pastors, from surfers to teachers … from any walk of life you care to name, methamphetamine has found its takers, its so-called tweekers.

The justice system's bad case scenario and they can roam, they just can't hide from the law forever when meth is only one of their many Illegalities.   Birds of a feather do flock together.  Will meth change who you are?
   It sure did a number on Aaron Carter.