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# Physician Convicted in Insy Therapeutics Scheme
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/physician-convicted-in-insy-therapeutics-scheme/
- Published: 2019-12-06T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T15:55:41.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: Drugs, #legacy-id-D5145675

A New York physician, **Gordon Freedman**, has been convicted for participating in a scheme to receive bribes and kickbacks through sham educational programs (“speaker programs”) from Insys Therapeutics in exchange for prescribing millions of dollars’ worth of Subsys, a fentanyl-based spray. “As a jury of his peers has now found, Dr. Gordon Freedman sold out his patients by prescribing a powerful and dangerous fentanyl opioid in exchange for bribes from the pharmaceutical company that manufactured that drug,” a government [release says](https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/manhattan-doctor-convicted-manhattan-federal-court-accepting-bribes-and-kickbacks?ref=fdaweb.com).  

Freedman received over $300,000 in speaker program fees from Insys in exchange for prescribing large volumes of Subsys. He was found guilty of one count of conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute, which carries a maximum term of five years in prison, one count of violating the Anti-Kickback Statute, which carries a maximum term of 10 years in prison, and one count of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, which carries a maximum term of 20 years in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for 3/19/2020.