A Staten Island doctor, his health clinic and a Brooklyn pharmacy are charged with illegally providing steroids to bodybuilders and weightlifters. One of the bodybuilders was a heart transplant patient who later died.
The prosecutor says the doctor wrote prescriptions to patients who had no medical need for them. He then steered the patients to Lowen's Pharmacy in Brooklyn in return for kickbacks.
Dr. Richard Lucente, who ran the New York Anti-Aging and Wellness Medical Services in West Brighton, is expected to be charged with 76 felony counts of criminal sales of prescriptions for controlled substances. Each felony count carries 5 1/2 years in jail.
The osteopath with medical offices in Dongan Hills and Bay Ridge -- and a wide range of clients, including NYPD officers, bodybuilders and local high school athletes -- also faces reckless endangerment and several public health charges.
The Brooklyn district attorney's office says charges in the indictment include criminal sale of a prescription for a controlled substance, and reckless endangerment.
His arraignment is expected at 11 a.m. in Brooklyn state Supreme Court.
The owner of the pharmacy, John Rossi of Eltingville, shot himself last year amid the criminal probe into the store's sales of performance-enhancing drugs. Rossi, 56, was named in former Sen. George Mitchell's report on drug use in baseball.
-Reported by Peter N. Spencer and the Associated Press
Source - SILive.com
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