A former Brooklyn state assemblyman was arraigned Thursday in connection with three Brooklyn pill mills accused of dumping $6.3 million in narcotics onto the black market.
Alec Brook-Krasny, 59, abruptly resigned from public office in 2015 to become chief financial officer of Quality Laboratory Services in Sheepshead Bay, where his compensation package totaled $350,000 in 2016, according to prosecutors.
It didn't take long for the ex-pol to allegedly start scheming with crooked Dr. Lazar Feygin who ran two of the pill mills, according to Assistant District Attorney Tess Cohen of the city's special narcotics office.
Feygin directed the bulk of his urinalysis tests to Brook-Krasny's clinic. The former assemblyman allegedly ordered unnecessary tests to get bogus insurance reimbursements and deleted positive alcohol results from patients' reports.
The clinics requested the doctored labs so they could continue to prescribe oxycodone to patients who were drinking excessively — a dangerous combination, officials said.
"It is clear from intercepted conversations that Mr. Brook-Krasny knows these were pill mills," Cohen said.
Justice Neil Ross set bail at $100,000. The ex-assemblyman previously said he quit his $92,000-a-year job to take a higher-paying position in the private sector.
He faces five counts of conspiracy, health care fraud and scheme to defraud.