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Urologist sued

- By JULIA MARSH

A Manhattan urologist pissed away $2 million in funds from the trade journal he co-founded with a partner and blew it on personal expenses including $24,000 for his daughter’s bat mitzvah and ski lessons at a posh Colorado resort, his miffed business partner says in a new lawsuit.

NYU chief urologist Herbert Lepor (inset), who started MedReviews with longtime friend and fellow doctor Michael Brawer in 1996, began using the company as his personal piggy bank after Brawer’s wife handed over the accounting duties in 2005, the Manhattan Supreme Court suit says.

Lepor started billing the business for everything from $21,500 for lighting at the 2010 bat mitvah plus a $2,600 dinner at Angus Club steakhouse the same weekend as the celebratio­n, according to court papers.

The 62-year-old Manhattan dad allegedly charged MedReviews for ski vaca- tions in Beaver Creek and Vail on the company account. He paid Beaver Creek Ski School $660 on Dec. 25, 2014, and the Vail Club nearly $8,000 between 2015 and 2016, the suit says.

Other incidental­s include $160 in Wi-Fi for his Ocean City, Md., beach house in 2014 and more than $1,500 at nearby eateries between 2014 and 2015, court records show.

The Johns Hopkins University graduate even plundered company coffers for far-flung trips to Italy, Israel and Peru, the suit says.

“Lepor caused MedReviews to deduct all of the payments as business expenses,” the suit says.

Brawer, a Seattle-based urologist, discovered the spree when Lepor tried to buy out his approximat­e 20 percent stake in the company for $50,000 last November, the suit says.

He’s suing for $3 million including repayment of the expenses plus interest.

Lepor’s secretary said he was unavailabl­e to comment.

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