Joseph Olivieri, 73, a physician who practiced in Manhattan, was sentenced to 40 months in prison for participating in a scheme to illegally distribute oxycodone and other controlled substances. Matthew Brady, 35, Olivieri’s co-defendant, was previously sentenced to 36 months in prison for his role in the same scheme. Olivieri, a physician who practiced in New York, New York, participated in a five-year-long scheme to illegally distribute oxycodone and other controlled substances. Olivieri was one of the top 15 prescribers of opioids in New York State during much of the scheme. He prescribed over 250,000 pills of controlled substances, including highly addictive opioids such as oxycodone, oxymorphone, and morphine sulfate, to individuals he knew did not have a legitimate medical need for them. Olivieri was paid in cash for these prescriptions, often by other individuals, including co-defendant Brady, who arranged with Olivieri for individuals posing as “patients” to obtain the prescriptions from Olivieri, and then collected the pills for their unlawful re-sale. Olivieri deposited more than $1 million in cash into his bank accounts during the scheme. In addition to the prison term, Olivieri was sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to forfeit $500,000. In addition to the prison term, Brady was sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to forfeit $100,000.
