His loved ones see it as a “profound injustice”

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Jacques Roy and Louise Lamarre in march 2011, less than a year before the arrest.

Éric Thibault

Sunday, 15 October 2017 08:00

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“Jacques has been a prey very easy. It was the head of the Turkish perfect.”

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According to Louise Lamarre, her husband “does not accept the verdict, but he understood very quickly that his chances of success were slim” in the judicial system of his country of adoption.

“When he was convicted, there was no surprise for him,” she said adding that there was a “political side” to this case.

His former lawyer, Patrick McLain, has already told the QMI Agency that the us government was trying to “demonize” Dr. Roy by the sweep conducted during the election year of 2012, two years after the adoption of the health reform Obamacare president Obama.

“They pinned the wrong guy. It was one of the doctors the most valiant of the country”, had told the jury Robert Scardino, one of three lawyers of Dr. Roy during his trial, quoted by the daily Dallas Morning News. Contacted by The Newspaper, Me Scardino declined to comment for the record.

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Cyprian Akamnonu, testifying for the prosecution at the trial of Dr. Roy, has confiscated 21 cars and four homes by the State in this case, but his sentence will be three times less long than that of the Québécois.

His son stuck

Jacques Roy has even seen his son, Nicolas, to be forced to go testify at his trial. For the pursuit.

The student worked part-time at the clinic of his father, where he focused on finance while completing his master’s degree in administration, when the FBI struck.

“They made him understand that it was better to cooperate otherwise he could be accused also. But Nicolas has told the truth, and it was cursed, because this is not what they wanted to hear”, said with spite, Dr. Lamarre.

Witnesses guilty

Other witnesses, of the accused who pleaded guilty and who were ex-employees or collaborators of Dr. Roy, have complained in court. In exchange for their collaboration, they have received sentences much more lenient than the Québécois.

“It works like that here, said his wife. Real scammers, as the former manager of his office, which mimicked the signature of James on the forms, and who testified that it was Jacques, who asked him to sign it for him. He had a blind confidence in it.”

Teri Sivils is drawn with a three-year probation.

Cyprian Akamnonu, ex-owner of a health care agency, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for having testified against Dr. Roy. The State has entered no less than 21 houses and real estate properties, as well as four luxury vehicles, all fraudulently acquired.

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Dr. Lamarre had his office at the clinic of Dr. Roy, but had nothing to do in this investigation.

Scam

Jacques Roy is said to be the victim of a “scam”, according to her sister Hélène, who was in the courtroom on the day of the verdict, on April 13, 2016.

“In addition, the jurors seemed to have been lost. The only juror that followed was a nurse who worked in a hospital where James had allegedly stolen from customers. She didn’t and it showed.”

Bernard Desgagné does not hesitate to say that his friend was “an ideal target” in the great household of the plans, Medicare and Medicaid, particularly because of “its quebec origins”.

“If all this was true, and for that it worthwhile, it would be necessary that Jacques put a little in the pockets and stash all of these million $ everywhere ? But no. Jacques was the evil incarnate to them.”

The psychiatrist Pierre Mailloux believes it plausible that his former colleague at the hospital Sainte-Marie of Three Rivers, a guy “very guileless and unsuspecting”, has been sentenced for other.

“I’ve not often seen good people like Jacques suddenly become hired. When crosseurs find themselves in hot water, they may denounce innocent people.”

The office of the US Attorney in Dallas did not want to comment on this issue because she has been brought before the court of appeal of the State.

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Patrick McLain, the first lawyer hired by Roy in 2012.

Security medium

At age 60, Dr. Jacques Roy rubs shoulders with now hard-to-cook at the federal penitentiary in medium security for Pollock, Louisiana.

“He who had always put the United States on a pedestal since his youth… He told me the joke that he is the only prisoner who is not tattooed there,” said his wife Louise, who speaks to him on the phone for a few minutes each day.

The doctor, for whom this was the first conviction for a criminal believed to be able to serve his sentence in a prison with minimum security in Texas.

“The judge has labeled as someone dangerous and the correctional services have had to classify it in a security penitentiary medium,” explained Dr. Lamarre.

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The clinic Medistat has lost all its assets to the result of the operation of the FBI.

Prisoner intellectual

The Quebec spends the most time possible in the library of this prison, which houses 1,200 prisoners, including violent criminals and drug dealers from gang-and fear-inspiring.

“It does not meddle much with the other. But during all the time he was imprisoned in Texas, he has earned the respect of the prisoners because he has helped many with his knowledge”, according to his wife.

Since he’s been behind bars since his arrest, his five years of detention on remand, already purged have been included to his sentence of 35 years.

“I find intolerable the idea that Jacques could finish his life in prison, although he has always denied vigorously his guilt, and that he bled to white by lawyers that have poorly defended. It is a profound injustice,” said his friend gatinois Bernard Desgagné.

A father is aghast

The legal problems of James Roy have weighed heavy on the past few years that has lived his father, Dr. Joseph Roy, who has even received a visit from FBI investigators in Quebec city.

“It has been very hard for him. He preferred not to talk too much about it”, according to Louise Lamarre.

Joseph Roy died at the age of 92 in June 2016, two months after his son was found guilty in Texas.

“Jacques was detained and he has not even been able to speak or see his father one last time before his death,” noted Dr. Marie-Josée Ladora, best friend of Dr. Lamarre.

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Jacques Roy, drawn at the time of his first appearance in court, was denied any bail and he has been held since the
February 28, 2012.

Thin hope

Hélène Roy believes that his younger brother has “no chance of escape by appeal”. “He had so much confidence in the american system. But here, he is seen as a dog dirty.”

It is hoped that Jacques Roy will ask for permission to be transferred to a penitentiary to his native country to finish his sentence in Canada, where it could benefit more quickly of a conditional discharge.

“These prisons are dangerous for him. But if it is transferred, it is likely that he may never return to the United States.”

Dr. Lamarre, who now works in a private medical clinic in Fort Worth, where it has the print of “return to zero”, said she also hoped that her husband “kind of there”.

In fact, this is no longer her husband since the 8th of June, she said.

“We divorced at his request. He knew that he risked a sentence to life. Then he insisted, to give me freedom and also to avoid that they just capture everything that I earn to pay what he must pay to the government… But it doesn’t change anything between us. I don’t let them alone.”