NEW YORK CITY — Federal authorities want to seize a multimillion-dollar Staten Island mansion from a doctor indicted for flooding the streets with opioid pills and defrauding Medicare.
Brooklyn federal prosecutors filed court documents last week to seize six properties and several bank accounts owned by Dr. Lazar Feygin, who was arrested for the pill scheme along with ex-Brooklyn Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny in April.
The properties include Feygin's $2.3 million home at 64 McCully Ave., which he bought with his wife in 2016. The palatial estate includes six bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a sauna, swimming pool and basketball court, according to a real estate listing.
Federal prosecutors also asked the court to seize Feygin's rental properties at 161 W. 61st St. and 212 E. 47th St. in Manhattan, 702 Ocean Parkway and 85 Belmont Ave. in Brooklyn, and his Miami condo.
Feygin was busted with 11 other people by the city's special narcotics prosecutor for writing prescriptions for millions of painkillers — mainly Oxycodone — to patients who didn't need them out of two Brooklyn offices, prosecutors said.
From 2012 until Feb. 2017, Feygin and his five practitioners wrote prescriptions for a total of 4.4 million pills, with 3.7 million of them for Oxycodone, according to court papers.
Most of the people prescribed pills did not live in the borough where Feygin had his practices, according to court documents.
The majority of people addicted to opioids started after being prescribed pain pills following an injury and then visit other doctors to to get more after their daily needs exceed the capacity of just one prescription, experts say.
As part of the scheme, Brook-Krasny would alter test results of urine samples while working at Quality Laboratory Services to remove contraindications in order to prescribe the pills, authorities said.
Brook-Krasny was indicted again earlier this month for directing bribes to bank accounts associated with the office manager for one of Feygin's medical practices, prosecutors said.
Feygin's clinics also submitted bogus bills to health insurances while defrauding Medicare and Medicaid out of $1.2 million, according to court documents.
The scheme paid out lucratively for Feygin, court records show.
Aside from millions in real estate holdings, Feygin also had more than $16 million in bank accounts for his two medical practices between 2012 to 2016.
His lawyer declined to comment.
