Case DIH-2873
George Blatti
A Nassau County, New York, physician who prescribed thousands of opioid and other pills without medical histories or exams, some to people he never met, from 2016 to 2018; five patients died of overdoses.
- Court
- State, Nassau County
- State
- New York
- Year of death
- 2016
- Year sentenced
- 2024
- Drugs
- Opioids and other prescription drugs (oxycodone, morphine, OxyContin, clonazepam, alprazolam)
- Conduct
- Prescribing
- Relationship
- Prescriber / patient
- Conviction
- Manslaughter in the second degree (five counts; plea)
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 5 to 15 years in prison
- 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
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