‘PILL MILL’ RAP ON ‘CLEAN’ EX-POL
Albany wasn’t corrupt enough for this politician.
Unable to satisfy his greed on a $92,000-a-year salary, Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny (inset) resigned to take a higher-paying job as the chief financial officer of a medical lab.
But the better life didn’t last, and he was indicted Friday in connection to three Brooklyn pill mills accused of pumping $6.3 million in narcotics onto the black market, officials said.
Brook-Krasny, 59, who abruptly resigned in mid2015 after nearly a decade in office, allegedly schemed with a crooked doctor who headed two of the clinics.
The ex-pol worked with Quality Laboratory Services in Sheepshead Bay, which did the bulk of drug urinalysis tests for Dr. Lazar Feygin’s two clinics, according to city Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget G. Brennan.
He allegedly ordered bogus tests and deleted positive alcohol results from reports to ensure patients who drank heavily would still get their oxycodone prescriptions, officials said.
Brook-Krasny, who represented Brighton Beach and other southern Brooklyn neighborhoods, previously told The Post that he had to step down because he wouldn’t break the law like other legislators do.
He wasn’t arrested with his 12 co-defendants Friday because he’s currently on vacation in Israel, a lawenforcement source said.
He found himself in hot water last year for continuing to use official legislative license plates more than eight months after he had left office, The Post reported.
Brook-Krasny was indicted on charges of conspiracy, health care fraud and scheme to defraud.
But Dr. Feygin was the mastermind, officials said.
Feygin’s two clinics, Parkville Medical Health in Kensington and LF Medical Services in Clinton Hill, received $16 million in fraudulent Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements from 2013 to 2017, officials said.
Feygin, 70, who was remanded, was hit with over 200 counts of conspiracy, grand larceny and other raps.