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Former Top Lehman Banker Arrested

Bradley H. Jack, a former investment banking chief at Lehman Brothers, was recently arrested after he used a forged prescription to obtain Oxycontin and Ritalin pills from a CVS store in Connecticut, a police official said.

Lt. James Perez of the Fairfield Police Department said Mr. Jack was charged with second-degree forgery and forgery of a prescription drug. He was released on a promise to appear in a Bridgeport court July 11.

According to Mr. Perez, on Friday Mr. Jack went to a CVS in his neighborhood in Fairfield, not far from his home. He gave the pharmacist a prescription for 12 pills of Oxycontin, a prescription painkiller, and nine pills of Ritalin, used to treat attention deficit disorder. The pharmacist told him it would take an hour or so to fill the order and Mr. Jack, dressed casually in tan khakis and a stripped shirt, indicated he would come back, Mr. Perez said.

The pharmacist quickly noticed that the prescription had been photocopied, called the doctor who had issued it and confirmed it was a fake, Mr. Perez said. Mr. Jack, 52, arrived back at the CVS an hour or so later but quickly left.

“For some reason he left and didn’t pick it up,” Mr. Perez explained. “But an employee followed him out of the store and got his license plate.”

The police got in touch with Mr. Jack, and he turned himself in.

“Before asking Jack any questions he immediately said he knew what he had done was wrong and he apologized,” Mr. Perez said.

This is an unusual turn of events for Mr. Jack, once a respected Wall Street banker and former co-chief operating officer at Lehman Brothers. Mr. Jack, who joined the investment bank in the 1980s, left Lehman in 2005, three years before the firm — weighed down by billions of dollars in soured real estate assets — filed for bankruptcy.

At the time, Mr. Jack indicated that he was planning to do non-profit work. Mr. Perez said Mr. Jack did not provide a current employer to the Fairfield police.

Second-degree forgery is a felony offense, and Mr. Perez said Mr. Jack could face jail time if convicted.

Mr. Jack was not available for comment. His lawyer did not immediately return calls for comment.

Mr. Jack’s arrest has made headlines in his hometown. The Fairfield Patch wrote a detailed article on his brush with the law with the headline, “Owner of Most Expensive Home in Fairfield Arrested.

Eric, Pharmacist: Curbing the narcotic problem

If you run over to Google and search for "pharmacy" in the news, you'll get a steady stream of stories about robberies and thefts at the pharmacy. A few weeks ago, up until the Long Island incident, the pharmacy stories revolved around the murder conviction of an Oklahoma pharmacist who emptied his gun into a man who had attempted to rob his pharmacy. As a practicing pharmacist, these programs do absolutely nothing to stop the abuse of narcotics. Anybody who works in community pharmacy knows how people will do or say anything to get their drugs. I honestly don't think handing a patient an extra sheet of paper telling them how the opiates might be bad for them will really affect their efforts to obtain morphine. A coloring book for kids isn't going to keep an addicted mom from deceiving a clinic physician in an attempt to score some hydrocodone. These programs may make non-practicing pharmacists feel good about There isn't one. But that doesn't mean that steps can't be taken to attempt to slow things down. The solution isn't one that falls strictly to the medical and pharmacy professions. It includes law-enforcement and the federal government. I won't go into the details of what the cops and feds should do, let's just say that they needs to be involved even more than they are. When a patient visits a prescriber, there needs to be a means to relay to the pharmacy what was actually prescribed. We've all had somebody present a prescription for Percocet or Vicodin from the ER late on a Saturday. In your gut you know that there was a second prescription issued, but somehow it was lost between the ER and the pharmacy counter. As much as I hate the thought of a centralized database, I propose a centralized database that records everything that has been prescribed as well as what has actually been filled for a patient. The process is simple... any time that you visit a prescriber you must present your identification card. The prescriber swipes the card thru a reader and is able to see what meds you have been prescribed, who prescribed them, what you actually had filled, and where you had it filled. Before releasing you with your prescription, the prescriber would record what medications they were prescribing and upload it to the database. When the patient visits the pharmacy, they would hand over both their prescriptions and the identification card.

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