Charged with fraud and corruption: the court decided the fate of the Russian-speaking member of the Assembly of New York - ForumDaily
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Accused of fraud and corruption: the court decided the fate of the Russian-speaking member of the Assembly of New York

The two-month lawsuit in New York ended with an excuse for the former Muscovite 61-year-old Alec Brook-Krasny, who was the first CIS immigrant elected to delegates to the state assembly.

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In April, 2017, he was arrested on charges of deceiving the public health system, conspiracy and other crimes, to which bribery was later added.

The jury, who met for exactly one week, acquitted Brook-Krasny on the main counts, but could not reach a consensus on the minor ones, primarily on the bribery clause.

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Manhattan prosecutors have until September 25 to decide whether to schedule a new trial on the remaining charges or give up on the case. If on the main counts Brook-Krasny faced several years in prison, then for bribes - less than a year, so prosecutors will not necessarily decide to spend money on a retrial: their resources are not unlimited.

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From 2006, Brook Red represented Brighton Beach, Coney Island and adjacent areas in the New York Legislature, receiving a salary of 92 thousands of dollars a year.

This money was obviously not enough, and in mid-2015 the parliamentarian unexpectedly resigned, explaining that he intended to improve his financial situation in the private sector. As prosecutor Christine Bailey said at trial, he improved him beyond anyone's expectations. According to her, in the first year Brook-Krasny earned 135 thousand dollars, and in the next nine months - already 395 thousand.

New York law enforcement and federal Drug Enforcement Administration officers targeted Brook-Krasny and 14 of his associates in an operation codenamed "Avalanche«.

According to the prosecutor's office, since 2012, the defendants, led by Dr. Lazar Feigin, who emigrated to the USA from Belarus, in a fraudulent manner got the state health insurance system has more than 24 million dollars and illegally written prescriptions more than 6 million oxycodone tablets, colloquially oxy. This is a powerful painkiller, whose tablet builds on the black market 20-30 dollars.

According to prosecutors, two clinics that Dr. Feigin owned in Brooklyn did unnecessary tests and carried out unnecessary procedures, and then billed for them the health insurance system. Patients were paid prescriptions for oxycodone.

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Brooke Red was the administrator of the laboratory that processed the analyzes taken by the Feigin clinics. According to prosecutors, the former parliamentarian put his political connections to serve Feigin's business. Brooke Red allegedly falsified the results of urine tests, artificially lowering the alcohol content. Oxycodone is not prescribed for drinking patients.

The defender of the former Muscovite, James McGovern, urged the jury that Brooke Red, without any ulterior motive, carried out Feigin's orders.

“Alec followed Dr. Feigin’s instructions, and that’s why he’s sitting here,” the lawyer said at the trial.

From the very beginning, McGovern also stated that his client was an innocent victim of law enforcement officers who were eager to earn points in a public case against a politician.

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For the authorities, this was truly a landmark case - not only because of Brook-Krasny, but also because it unfolded against the backdrop of the current millions of Americans opiatesthat takes thousands of lives every year.

The press mockingly recalled that in 2014, Brook-Krasny introduced two bills to the Assembly to combat this scourge. True, both “died in infancy.”

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Advocate McGovern told the jury that Brook-Krasny’s ​​19-year-old son had overdosed in an opiate over 2014, so it’s ridiculous to say that his father had a hand in spreading oxycodone.

In March, 72-year-old Feigin pleaded guilty. Prosecutor's office in return promised not to demand for him over five years in prison.

Brook-Krasny chose to fight to the end and achieved an acquittal on key points, although his case is not yet over. “They ruined his life! — lawyer McGovern attacked the prosecutors in his last word. “They ruined his reputation!... They arrested him and accused him of things based on nothing!”

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