Doctor and son accused of running dangerous side-business scheme in New York

Officials announced Thursday that a doc and his lad person been accused of operating a family-run pill mill successful New York, successful what authorities picture arsenic a brazen maltreatment of aesculapian authorization to substance the amerciable organisation of medicine drugs.

Over a astir three-month play successful 2022, the doc allegedly wrote fraudulent prescriptions for highly addictive medications without ever examining patients, portion his lad recovered buyers and collected payments arsenic portion of the scheme, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

Authorities accidental the brace distributed a wide scope of drugs, including those commonly known arsenic Percocet, Adderall and Xanax.

Dr. Richard Taubman, a 71-year-old retired physician, and his 33-year-old son, Eric Taubman, surrendered Thursday to investigators with the Nassau County District Attorney's Office pursuing an extensive, multi-year associated investigation.

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A close-up of a manus holding a achromatic medicine pill. (iStock)

"Their alleged strategy to unlawfully administer controlled substance prescriptions, placing profits supra nationalist health, is not lone reckless and dangerous, but unconscionable," DEA New York Enforcement Division Special Agent successful Charge Farhana Islam said successful a statement. 

"Medical professionals are entrusted with protecting patients’ lives, not destroying them by exploiting them to addiction and harm." 

According to the DEA, the begetter is simply a retired obstetrician-gynecologist from Great Neck who returned to signifier astatine a non-surgical value nonaccomplishment halfway successful Islandia, successful Suffolk County, successful aboriginal 2022.

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Shelves with medicine drugs wrong a pharmacy connected Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025. (Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Investigators allege that betwixt April 5 and June 29, 2022, Taubman wrote dozens of prescriptions for controlled substances for aggregate individuals without a morganatic aesculapian intent and extracurricular the people of his practice. 

He besides submitted the prescriptions electronically from his location successful Glen Head to pharmacies crossed Queens, officials further alleged. 

Separately, the lad allegedly provided the begetter with the idiosyncratic accusation and cause requests of friends and acquaintances.

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A DEA logo sits down packages of drugs. (Fox News)

Numerous reports from pharmacist employees soon flooded the DEA, and the bureau said the father’s medicine licence was stripped astir 1 period later.

The probe besides revealed that immoderate individuals allegedly circulated the drugs adjacent further, selling them for profit, trading them for currency and different drugs, oregon simply utilizing them. 

The begetter and lad turned themselves successful connected Thursday and pleaded not blameworthy to aggregate charges.

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They are specifically charged with 23 counts of illegally selling oregon trying to merchantability cause prescriptions, on with 1 number of illegally teaming up to transportation retired this scheme.

If convicted, they look up to 5 and a fractional years successful prison.