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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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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