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Westchester Doctor Found Guilty Of Accepting Kickbacks From Opioid Maker Westchester Doctor Found Guilty Of Accepting Kickbacks From Opioid Maker
Westchester Doctor Found Guilty Of Accepting Kickbacks From Opioid Maker A Manhattan anesthesiologist from Northern Westchester who distributed highly addictive painkillers was convicted of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks in a separate case. Mount Kisco resident Gordon Freedman, 59, was convicted by a federal jury in Manhattan federal court of conspiracy to violate anti-kickback laws, violating anti-kickback laws and honest services wire fraud after accepting more than $300,000 in bribes masked as speaker fees in exchange for writing certain prescriptions for Insys Therapeutics Inc. It was alleged that in 2014, Freedman wrote the fourth-h…

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Northern Westchester Doctor Admits To Illegally Distributing Fentanyl Resulting In Fatal OD Northern Westchester Doctor Admits To Illegally Distributing Fentanyl Resulting In Fatal OD
Northern Westchester Doctor Admits To Illegally Distributing Fentanyl Resulting In Fatal OD A doctor who resides in Northern Westchester has admitted to illegally distribution fentanyl, resulting in a fatal overdose in 2017, federal authorities announced. The guilty plea comes less than two weeks after Dr. Gordon Freedman, 59, of Mount Kisco was convicted of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from a pharmaceutical company to push medically unneeded fentanyl in a separate case. "It seems clear Gordon Freedman was more concerned with his own wealth than his patients’ health," United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey S. Berman said. The char…

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Westchester Doctor Charged After Patient's Fentanyl Overdose Death Westchester Doctor Charged After Patient's Fentanyl Overdose Death
Westchester Doctor Charged After Patient's Fentanyl Overdose Death A doctor from Mount Kisco who is already facing charges for an alleged kickback scheme has been indicted for distributing the fentanyl that led to a fatal overdose. Gordon Freedman was indicted in Manhattan federal court this week with 16 counts of distributing oxycodone, fentanyl and other controlled substances to a patient for his role in prescribing the drugs that led to the overdose. The indictment alleges that between 2013 and May 2017, Freedman who owned and operated a private pain management office on the Upper East Side prescribed controlled substance to a particular patient, includ…

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Westchester Doctors Charged With Taking Fentanyl Prescription Kickbacks Westchester Doctors Charged With Taking Fentanyl Prescription Kickbacks
Westchester Doctors Charged With Taking Fentanyl Prescription Kickbacks Two doctors from Westchester practicing in Manhattan were among five charged with participating in a bribery and kickback scheme that prosecutors said sought to increase the drug company’s sales while taking advantage of patients, Geoffrey S. Berman, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced Friday. Gordon Freedman of Mount Kisco and Jeffrey Goldstein of New Rochelle were among the five charged with participating in a scheme to receive bribes and kickbacks in the form of fees for sham educational programs from a pharmaceutical company in exchange for prescribing milli…

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by Joe Lombardi