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“A doctor selling prescriptions for cash in a hotel parking lot is a drug dealer perpetuating one of America’s number one health threats – opioid abuse,” said James Hunt, special agent in charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Weintraub sold the informant the drugs during meetings in his car, which was parked in the lot of a Rockland County hotel, Bharara said. The Saddle River resident “attempted to arrange a long-term relationship with the customer in which Weintraub would provide weekly Oxycodone prescriptions to the customer, who would then fill the prescriptions and resell the pills at a premium,” Bharara said in a statement.
Weintraub’s medical license was revoked subsequent to his arrest by the Northvale Police Department after allegations that he fondled the breasts of a patient during a medical exam in 2012.
“Weintraub’s conduct was a blatant violation of his oath to ‘do no harm.’ Weintraub’s pattern of inappropriate sexual misconduct is clearly unacceptable and the Board’s action ensures that he will never practice medicine in this state again,” then-Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman said at the time, in a statement.
Following this suspension, Weintraub began illegally selling prescriptions for controlled substances in exchange for cash, Bharara said.
“Illegally diverted prescription opiates feed the vicious cycle of addiction and abuse that is devastating too many of our communities,” Bharara said. “As a doctor, Frederick Weintraub was supposed to care for the health of his patients, not help fuel the country’s most acute health crisis.”
Oxycodone is a highly addictive, often abused medication, said New York State Police Superintendent George P. Beach II following the sentencing.
In addition to his prison term, Weintraub, 65, of Upper Saddle River, was sentenced to two years of supervised release, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.