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Northern Westchester Doctor Found Guilty Of Accepting $300K In Kickbacks From Opioid Maker Northern Westchester Doctor Found Guilty Of Accepting $300K In Kickbacks From Opioid Maker
Northern Westchester Doctor Found Guilty Of Accepting $300K In 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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