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Fourth Manhattan Doctor Pleads Guilty To Accepting Bribes And Kickbacks From Pharmaceutical Company For Prescribing Fentanyl


JEFFREY GOLDSTEIN, a doctor who practiced in Manhattan, pled guilty to conspiracy 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 pled guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Henry B. Pitman. The case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Kimba M. Wood.