A Long Beach attorney sentenced to six months in federal prison for illegally selling more than 1,000 oxycodone pills on Craigslist has been disbarred.
The State Bar of California took the disciplinary action Sept. 30 after Jackie P. Ferrari, 41, failed to respond to a hearing notice stemming from her 2019 conviction in U.S. District Court, where she pleaded guilty to one count of illegally distributing the powerful painkiller.
According to court documents, Ferrari sold a law enforcement informant 50 oxycodone pills for $1,200 in 2019 outside the Beverly Hills law firm where she purportedly worked. She was arrested about a week later after agreeing to sell the informant another 180 pills for $4,100.
Ferrari could not be reached for comment. However, a man who answered a call Tuesday, Oct. 17, placed to her number identified himself as her father and questioned why the disbarment remains newsworthy.
The Drug Enforcement Administration investigation involving Ferrari began after a 22-year-old woman died in August 2018 from an accidental fentanyl overdose.
The DEA initially believed text messages on the woman’s cellphone indicated she may have purchased the narcotics from a drug trafficker associated with Ferrari.
While federal investigators were unable to link Ferrari to the woman’s death, they opened an investigation based on evidence that she was a large-scale trafficker in opiates on Craigslist, along with information from the Costa Mesa and Cypress police departments tying her to illegal drug activities in late 2017.
Ferrari made more than 100 posts on Craigslist advertising a variety of narcotics for sale, including oxycodone, fentanyl, heroin, ecstasy and Adderall, as well as paraphernalia that turns powder cocaine into crack, according to investigators.
Ferrari attempted to disguise the drugs by using code words in the ads, such as “roxy dolls” for Roxicodone, “Chinese White Rice” for powder heroin cut with fentanyl imported from…
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