Overview

• Judge Brian M. Cogan imposed a 19-year prison term on 45-year-old Michael Kuilan, plus a concurrent 15-year sentence for unlawful firearm possession, ordered $24,482 in restitution and the forfeiture of $30,000 and a seized handgun
• Court documents show Kuilan supplied the fentanyl-and-heroin mixture to co-defendant Antonio Venti, who sold the deadly dose to Cecilia Gentili on February 5, 2024
• Federal agents seized hundreds of fentanyl-filled glassine envelopes, a .45-caliber handgun, ammunition and drug-distribution equipment during a search of Kuilan’s Williamsburg apartment
• Antonio Venti pleaded guilty in July 2024 and was sentenced in February 2025 to five years in prison for his role in distributing the fatal narcotics mixture
• Cecilia Gentili was a prominent transgender activist and founder of Trans Equity Consulting who died of a multi-drug overdose in her Brooklyn home on February 6, 2024