Fake Prescriptions Government Used as Trial Exhibits with stamped, identical, & pixelated “T Sasaki”s but NOT DEA #

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The evidence actually shows that Dr. Sasaki blew the whistle in early 2007 by calling and emailing the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) several times prior to the interrogation to report other people who may be involved with prescription crimes, urging the DEA to investigate.

Star witness DEA Agent Tyler Parkison, told numerous verifiable lies under oath against Dr. Sasaki such as about Dr. Sasaki’s DEA number and original signatures being on the conspiracy’s prescriptions, when they aren’t.

The prescriptions, which were last in & still in the possession of the Department of Justice (DoJ) & DEA, were obviously forged because the scripts have 855 identical, pixelated “T Sasaki” signatures without an “MD” designation, on which no handwriting analysis was done.

Parkison based his testimony of Dr. Sasaki’s “confession” on the notes he claimed he made at an unrecorded 2007, >2 hour interrogation of Dr. Sasaki even though Parkison’s own supervisor DEA Program Manager Richard Springer, testified under oath that it was actually another DEA Investigator (Joseph Cox), who was the one who actually took notes. Joseph Cox’s notes contradict Parkison’s but Cox never testified.

And Parkison’s first version of notes are different from his second set of notes which are different from his third version of notes. For example, his first version of notes don’t say Dr. Sasaki confessed and doesn’t say Dr. Sasaki “authorized” or “approved” anything. Parkison’s second set of notes even though written when he was in the hotel room alone, show that he crossed out and replaced names to ensure that Dr. Sasaki confessed correctly. Then his typed up third version of notes made two weeks later was constructed after he discussed the interrogation with people who were not even at the interrogation. That third version of notes used “authorizing” and “approving” language SIXTEEN times, thus finally cementing the confession Parkison testified that Dr. Sasaki made.

In fact, Parkison is the only DEA employee out of the five in the room who claims that Dr. Sasaki confessed. Moreover, while Parkison claimed that Dr. Sasaki was not being completely honest, it was actually Parkison who was not honest as proven by the numerous verifiable lies.

After the June 27^th, 2007 interrogation where Parkison testified that Dr. Sasaki had confessed, the DEA never told him to stop, never took any administrative actions against Dr. Sasaki, renewed and expanded Dr. Sasaki’s ability to prescribe narcotics in 2008, and waited until April of 2010 to arrest him & finally stop his ability to prescribe narcotics.

And we know that Parkison’s confession story was the main, perhaps only evidence against Dr. Sasaki because NYU alumni Chief Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. of the Northern District of Ohio (NDOH) relied exclusively on Parkison’s testimony to deny Dr. Sasaki’s motions for relief.

Dr. Edward Chelsow was given a one month prison term after testifying on behalf of the government against Dr. Sasaki who had supposedly recruited Dr. Cheslow to prescribe narcotics. But Dr. Cheslow actually confessed under oath that he actually didn’t prescribe while associated with Dr. Sasaki but he did so afterwards, despite Dr. Sasaki telling him it was illegal and not to do it.

Dr. Cheslow also revealed that the doctors had to press an approve button to authorize the narcotics but Parkison verified that Dr. Sasaki never actually logged on so could not have pressed the approve button. Parkison’s first version of notes contradicted his verbal account of the confession because they say Dr. Sasaki didn’t have to approve the meds and hadn’t used his DEA number for over a year.

There is no evidence of Dr. Sasaki authorizing narcotics or getting other doctors to authorize narcotics aside from Parkison’s verifiable lies. Indeed the server that would have the metadata of who actually logged in or pressed the approve button was never provided to the defense, despite multiple requests and even though in the control of the Government.

IRS Agent Robert Thatcher falsely testified that Dr. Sasaki “must have kept” the majority of the fees from the conspiracy, when bank records conclusively show that Dr. Sasaki kept none of it and actually made no money.

The prosecutor Assistant US Attorney Edward F. Feran lied to the jury claiming that Dr. Sasaki had asked for immunity based on false testimony elicited from DEA Agent Tyler Parkison that Dr. Sasaki had mentioned “immunity” in his email. In fact, no email at trial or in the exhibits, even written by others had mentioned “immunity”, a synonym, or anything that could be misconstrued as “immunity”.

Based on Thatcher’s testimony, Feran falsely claimed Dr. Sasaki got “rich” by making “a couple of hundred thousand dollars”, when the bank records proved Dr. Sasaki made no money.

Despite Dr. Sasaki being convicted as being the leader of the conspiracy, the more than 3,000 wiretaps intercepted of the conspiracy before and after Dr. Sasaki’s interrogation revealed that Dr. Sasaki was not on any of the wiretaps and wasn’t even mentioned, ever.

Dr. Sasaki’s prosecutors, US Attorney Steven Dettelbach, AUSA Rebecca C. Lutzko and AUSA Edward F. Feran, as well as DEA Group Supervisor Lee Lucas, all have evidence of prior misconduct, but with no indication that they were ever disciplined.

Parkison was promoted from DEA Investigator to DEA Agent following his third version of notes of Dr. Sasaki’s unrecorded interrogation. AUSA Rebecca Chattin Lutzko was promoted to lead the Appellate division of of the Northern District of Ohio after Dr. Sasaki’s conviction. Like the rest of the all white prosecution team, DEA Agent Parkison has helped send many health professionals of color to prison.

And the evidence showed that defense attorneys paid by or assigned to Dr. Sasaki had questions of competence and loyalty.

Case Western ethics professor Attorney Jerome “Jay” Milano has also been found to be ineffective and unethical in many other cases, like as a lawyer for Kevin Lumpkin, Tony Viola, and Darryl Durr.

And another defense attorney Jeffry Kelleher actually admitted in emails that he wanted the judge to send “sick motherfucker” Dr. Sasaki away to get him out of Kelleher’s life. In an effort to sanitize, the non-Asian judge, prosecutors, & Kelleher conspired to keep the emails off of Dr. Sasaki’s court records, which made his appeals more difficult.

And confidential emails obtained by TIC showed that yet another defense attorney Richard Lillie convinced Dr. Sasaki to say things which Lillie told him to at sentencing that made Dr. Sasaki appear to show “regret and remorse for his crimes” even over Dr. Sasaki’s strenuous objections that he was innocent, which Lillie’s reporter friend James F. McCarty quoted verbatim even though McCarty was not even in the courtroom.

Despite numerous court filings pointing out this evidence, neither the courts nor the prosecution team has acknowledged, apologized for, or corrected these verifiable lies. So the conviction by the non-Asian jury stands to this day.  CLICK HERE to see why experts believe that Racism is not only the main reason for Dr. Sasaki’s conviction, but is the main reason, he has not been exonerated yet.