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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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