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Blaming Dealers for Drug Deaths Misses Another Culprit

AN APRIL 1 federal indictment charged two men, Antonio Venti and Michael Kuilan, with supplying the drugs that killed transgender activist Cecilia Gentili in February. Among other things, Venti and Kuilan are accused of causing Gentili’s death by distributing a mixture of heroin and fentanyl, a felony punishable by a mandatory minimum of 20 years in prison and a maximum of life.

Gentili “was tragically poisoned in her Brooklyn home [by] fentanyl-laced heroin,” Breon

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