doctor heading to prison
according to the feds... Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DAVID TAYLOR, a state-licensed doctor, was convicted by a jury for writing medically unnecessary prescriptions for oxycodone over a five-year period. The verdict followed a one-week jury trial before United States District Court Judge Andrew L. Carter, Jr. U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said: “Dr. David Taylor violated his solemn Hippocratic oath to do no harm. For cash and gifts, Taylor prescribed more than 100,000 oxycodone pills that quickly made its way to the streets of New York City, fueling the opioid epidemic. Now, Taylor stands convicted and faces 20 years in prison for his crime.” According to allegations in the Indictment and evidence introduced at trial: From January 2012 through at least June 2017, in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, TAYLOR and others conspired to distribute and possess with the inten...