WHITE PLAINS – A Mount Kisco pain management doctor with offices in Manhattan pled guilty in federal court on Wednesday to distributing oxycodone and fentanyl to a patient for no legitimate medical purpose, which resulted in the overdose of the patient.
Gordon Freedman, 59, pled guilty to the charge before US District Judge Alison Nathan.
“Less than two weeks ago, Gordon Freeman was convicted of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from a pharmaceutical company to push medically unneeded fentanyl,” said Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman. “Today, in a separate but hardly unrelated case, he admitted to dispensing massive quantities of oxycodone and fentanyl to a patient who died of a fentanyl overdose in 2017. It seems clear Gordon Freedman was more concerned with his own wealth that his patients’ health.”
According to the indictment and court filings, in one case, he gave one patient prescriptions for over 85,400 oxycodone pills, an average of about 234 pills per day.
Freedman faces up to 20 years in prison when sentenced on March 18, 2020.
On December 5, 2019, Freedman was convicted in a separate case on charges of conspiracy to violate the anti-kickback statute and conspiracy to commit honest-services wire fraud. He is scheduled to be sentenced in that case on the following day.
