Doctor convicted in Brooklyn for prescribing oxycodone and causing overdose
Prosecutors called him a drug dealer with a prescription pad
Following a two-week trial, a Manhattan doctor was convicted in Brooklyn’s federal court of causing the overdose death of a patient in a jury trial in front of U.S. District Judge Raymond J. Dearie on Wednesday.
Dr. Martin Tesher, who is 83 years old, was convicted by a federal jury of 10 counts of unlawful distribution of oxycodone without legitimate medical purpose to five patients. One of those patients died as a result of the prescription just two days after his last visit with Tesher.
“Dr. Tesher dispensed opioids to patients whom he knew were abusing illegal drugs and the tragic result was an overdose death,” stated U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Richard Donoghue. “Today, the jury held Dr. Tesher responsible for the part he played in fueling the opioid epidemic by abandoning his responsibilities as a medical professional and for acting as a drug dealer with a prescription pad.”
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