13 Apr Westchester doctor indicted for diverting dugs, causing patient’s overdose death
WHITE PLAINS – A Mount Kisco doctor was indicted by a federal grand jury on 16 counts of distributing oxycodone, fentanyl and other controlled substances to a patient, including one count of distributing fentanyl that caused the patient’s death.
On about 2013 through May 2017, Dr. Gordon Freedman, 58, who practiced in Manhattan, and who was an associate clinical professor at a large hospital, allegedly prescribed several controlled substances to a patient, including enormous quantities of oxycodone and fentanyl.
In 2013 alone, the indictment alleged Freedman prescribed that patient over 85,400 oxycodone pills, an average of over 230 pills per day, containing a total of more than 2.4 million milligrams of oxycodone. On or about April 13, 2017, Freedman gave prescriptions to the same patient for some 150 doses of the drug containing fentanyl and for some 950 oxycodone pills.
On May 4, 2017, the patient died of a fentanyl overdose after ingesting a quantity of the drugs prescribed by Freedman, it is alleged.
He is charged with one count of distributing controlled substances resulting in the death of another, which carries from 20 years to life in prison. He is also charged with 15 counts of distributing controlled substances, each of which carries up to 20 years in prison.
In March 2018, Freedman was indicted in another case in charges of conspiracy to violate the anti-kickback statute and conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud. That case is scheduled to begin in November.
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