Gordon Freedman faces federal charges.

A doctor from Mount Kisco has been accused of illegally pushing fentanyl and other drugs that led to the death of one of his patients.

Gordon Freedman, who owned a pain-management office in Manhattan, was arrested on Thursday and accused of prescribing hundreds of thousands of oxycodone pills and tens of thousands of milligrams of fentanyl for a few years to a patient who overdosed on May 4, 2017, according to a federal indictment that was unsealed on Thursday.

Freedman, 58, appeared in Manhattan federal court on Thursday to face the 16-count indictment, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. He is charged with distributing controlled substances resulting in a death, as well as 15 counts of distributing controlled substances.

“Dr. Freedman looks forward to going to trial where a jury will find him not guilty of everything,” his lawyer, Sam Braverman, told The Journal News/lohud today. “He was, and remains, an excellent doctor who was dedicated to his patient’s well being.

“Part of being a doctor at the top of your field is that you often deal with the hardest cases, the most sick, the patients for whom a solution to their worst pain is often elusive. At that end of the care spectrum, sometimes patients do lose their battle with their illness, and that is tragic. But it was never because of any indifference or reckless behavior of Dr. Freedman.

This is the second criminal case that Freedman is facing in federal court.

In March 2018, he was one of five doctors in Manhattan indicted on charges involving accusations that he participated in a kickback scheme tied to receiving bribes for prescribing fentanyl. He is scheduled to go to trial in that case in November.

New Rochelle resident Jeffrey Goldstein is also one of the doctors charged in that case. Charges against him are pending.

Prescription charges

The charges announced Thursday against Freedman, who also worked as an associate clinical professor at a large Manhattan hospital, focus on a patient who was prescribed numerous drugs between 2013 and May 2017 for no legitimate medical reason, officials said.

Freedman is accused of prescribing fentanyl, oxycodone, hydromorphone, morphine, and oxymorphone to that patient. In 2013 alone, officials said, Freedman prescribed the patient about 85,427 oxycodone pills — an average of 234 pills per day.

On April 13, 2017, Freedman prescribed the patient, whose name was not revealed by officials, with about 140 doses of a drug containing fentanyl, and about 950 oxycodone pills, officials said. After using drugs from those prescriptions, the patient died of an overdose in Manhattan on May 4, 2017, officials said.

The FBI and NYPD helped investigate the case.

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