Thursday, April 14, 2005

Feds bust Gambino thug, tie 3 docs to sex-Rx case

The Gambino crime family has been stockpiling Viagra and a pharmacy full of other prescription drugs allegedly supplied by three prominent Westchester doctors, the Daily News has learned.

Drs. Stephen Klass, Arlen Fleisher and George Shapiro have been caught on FBI tapes providing the drugs to gangster Gregory DePalma, according to law enforcement sources.

DePalma - a veteran capo in the Gambino family - and his crew took bagfuls of drugs from the doctors in 2003 and 2004, according to a longrunning FBI investigation.

The FBI observed or monitored numerous meetings and conversations between the doctors and DePalma, and recorded DePalma and his associates constantly asking for more drugs - especially Viagra and other erectile dysfunction drugs.

The agents discovered DePalma then sold the drugs or gave them away to friends and family.

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