NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A federal jury found a Manhattan doctor guilty of trading cash, cocaine and sexual favors for oxycodone, the Department of Justice announced on Friday.
Howard Adelglass, 67, worked together with Marcello Sansone running a pain management clinic that doubled as a prolific pill mill in Midtown.
In exchange for cash payments, and, in some instances, cocaine or sexual favors, Adelglass wrote thousands of prescriptions for large amounts of oxycodone.
Many of the prescriptions he wrote for people he knew had no medical need for the pills. Many of them were addicts and some sold the pills on the street.
Adelglass staffed the clinic with inexperienced young women, some of whom became addicted to oxycodone while working there.
Between November 2017 and September 2020, Adelglass prescribed more than 1.3 million oxycodone pills.
“Doctor Howard Adelglass was a drug dealer, but instead of peddling drugs on the street corner, he distributed drugs with a prescription pad from his Central Park South ‘pain-management clinic.’” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said. “For years, the defendant prescribed enormous quantities of highly addictive and deadly opioids to people he knew were suffering from substance abuse disorders or were dealers. By distributing mammoth quantities of oxycodone pills to people without a legitimate medical purpose, the defendant destroyed lives and families.”
Sansone pleaded guilty to conspiracy to illegally distribute oxycodone on Oct. 13. Adelglass was convicted of the same charge.
They each face up to 20 years in prison.
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