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Pushing Subsys Yields 57 Months For
Goldstein Who Laughed At Detained Peruvian
By Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive, Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 16 – Amid
the opioid and
corporate drug-dealing
crisis,
Doctor
Jeffrey Goldstein
and his two
lawyers arrived
to plead
guilty to
anti-kickback
violations on
August 16,
2019.
It had
been
announced:
"11:00 a.m. –
Proceeding of
interest in
U.S. v.
Jeffrey
Goldstein –
the defendant
is 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
millions of
dollars’ worth
of a potent
fentanyl-based
spray
manufactured
by the company
– in
Magistrate
court
(courtroom 5A,
500 Pearl
Street)."
Inner City
Press went to
the Mag
Court at the
appointed time
but there was
another case on, an
attempted guilty
plea to extortion by
a man from
Peru who told
Mag Judge Henry
Pitman that he
hadn't
actually
intended to
hurt the
victim. His
lawyer - to
whom Judge
Pitman asked,
Are you
texting? -
whispered with
him then he
said he had
meant harmed.
Whatever they
say, this led
to visible
mirth among
Team
Goldstein.
When it was
Goldstein's turn,
the Peruvian being
transferred
next with this
dubious plea
to District
Judge Lorna G.
Schofield, Judge
Pitman asked him if he is
on medication.
Yes,
for anxiety.
He allocuted to
taking speaker
fees from
Insys to
prescribe
Subsys
fentanyl spray
to his patents. Then he
walked out of
the SDNY
courthouse the
same way he
walked in,
while the
Peruvian was
taken back in
shackles to
the MCC.
Now
after all that
time on
pre-trial
release, and
with more to come,
this from the
US Attorney's
Office on June
16, 2021: "
announced
today that
JEFFREY
GOLDSTEIN, a
doctor who
practiced in
New York, New
York, was
sentenced
today in
Manhattan
federal court
to 57 months
in prison for
conspiring to
violate the
Anti-Kickback
Statute, in
connection
with a scheme
to prescribe
Subsys, a
potent
fentanyl-based
spray, in
exchange for
bribes and
kickbacks from
Subsys’s
manufacturer,
Insys
Therapeutics.
GOLDSTEIN
previously
pled guilty,
on August 16,
2019, before
U.S.
Magistrate
Judge Henry B.
Pitman, and
was sentenced
today by U.S.
District Judge
Kimba M.
Wood."
The
case is US v.
Goldstein,
18-cr-217
(Wood)
O
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