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New York Ex-Jail Doctor Charged With Selling Prescription Painkillers
Loaded on June 15, 2011
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2011, page 47
The former clinical director of the jail in Nassau County, New York was charged in December 2010 with selling oxycodone, oxycontin and roxycodone without performing patient evaluations or exams.Martin Roginsky, 82, was charged with ten felony counts of criminal sale of a prescription for a controlled substance after he ...
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