East Islip Doctor Pleads Guilty to Oxycodone Distribution
Carmine G. Mandarano, a medical doctor whose practice is located in East Islip, New York, pleaded guilty today to the illegal distribution of oxycodone, a highly addictive prescription pain killer.
Mandarano entered his plea before United States Magistrate Judge Gary R. Brown at the United States Courthouse located in Central Islip, New York. At sentencing, Mandarano faces a maximum of 20 years’ imprisonment and a $1 million fine.
Mandarano has agreed to forfeit $150,000 in criminally-derived proceeds to the government.
The guilty plea was announced by Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York; James J. Hunt, Acting Special Agent-in-Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), New York; and Tom F. O’Donnell, Special Agent-in-Charge, Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General (HHS/OIG), New York Regional Office.
“Medical professionals who hand out prescriptions for narcotics when there is no legitimate medical need to do so are drug dealers, pure and simple. Doctors who violate their oaths to do no harm, and the law, will continue to be held accountable,” Ms. Lynch said, extending her grateful appreciation to each of the law enforcement agencies for their assistance in this case.
During his plea, Mandarano admitted that in 2011 he issued a prescription for oxycodone to a patient that he knew was using illegal narcotics, had obtained multiple narcotics prescriptions from other medical professionals, and was abusing painkillers.
Oxycodone is a scheduled controlled substance that may be dispensed by medical professionals only for a legitimate medical purpose in the usual course of a doctor’s professional practice. It is a powerful and highly addictive drug and is increasingly abused because of its potency when crushed into a powder and ingested, leading to a heroin-like euphoria.
Mandarano’s guilty plea is the latest in a series of federal prosecutions by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York as part of the Prescription Drug Initiative. In January 2012, this Office and the DEA, in conjunction with the five District Attorneys in this jurisdiction, the Nassau and Suffolk County Police Departments, the New York City Police Department, and New York State Police, along with other key federal, state, and local government partners, launched the Prescription Drug Initiative to mount a comprehensive response to what the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ Center for Disease Control and Prevention has called an epidemic increase in the abuse of so-called opioid analgesics.
The government’s case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Lara Treinis Gatz. The Defendant: Name: CARMINE G. MANDARANO Age: 62 Residence: Northport, NY Criminal Charges: The illegal distribution of oxycodone Date: 2011 Sentence or Outcome: Mandarano faces a maximum of 20 years’ imprisonment and a $1 million fine. Dollar Amounts: $1 million fine, $150,000 in criminally-derived proceeds
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Key Facts
- State: New York
- Category: Drug Trafficking|Fraud & Financial Crimes|Violent Crime|Sex Crimes|Cybercrime|Public Corruption|Weapons|Human Trafficking|White Collar Crime|Organized Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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