Case DIH-2744
Lawrence Choy
A Flushing, Queens, physician who sold prescriptions for opioids and other drugs in lethal doses and combinations; two patients died of overdoses within three days of receiving his prescriptions, the first in February 2013.
- Court
- State, New York County
- State
- New York
- Year of death
- 2013
- Year sentenced
- 2019
- Drugs
- Oxycodone and alprazolam (prescriptions)
- Conduct
- Prescribing
- Relationship
- Prescriber / patient
- Conviction
- Manslaughter in the second degree (two counts); reckless endangerment; criminal sale of a prescription for a controlled substance (plea)
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- Seven years in prison and two years of post-release supervision (two years four months to seven years on each manslaughter count)
- Found through
- State prosecutor and news search, October 2026
This case was brought under New York law. For what that law says, see New York in the state law guide.
Sources
- dea.govPhysician sentenced seven years prison for patients deaths
- abc7ny.comNyc doctor sentenced to 7 years in prison for overdose deaths
Sources checked 8 October 2026. If something here is wrong or out of date, please tell us.