NY-based Guyanese doctor jailed for 12 years over bogus prescriptions

Kevin Lowe

New York-based Guyanese doctor Kevin Lowe, 55, was on Monday jailed for 12 years in what the Manhattan US Attorney’s office said was one of the largest oxycodone diversion schemes ever dismantled.

Lowe was arrested in 2014 after the massive pain-killer scam was busted at various Bronx clinics run under the name Astramed. He was convicted in May last year and the sentence was handed down on Monday.

Yesterday’s New York Daily News said that in delivering the sentence Judge Lorna G. Schofield said “Yours is not an easy