Baldwin doc pleads not guilty in overdose deaths
Photo credit: Jim Staubitser | Federal agents raided the office of Dr. William Conway in Baldwin and carried out about a half-dozen boxes of records in February. Conway was arrested in June 2012 along with 97 other people in a massive federal and local investigation of illegal prescription painkillers. He was charged with illegally distributing 780,000 oxycodone pills. (Feb. 29, 2012)
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A Baldwin doctor, clad in prison blue, entered a not guilty plea Friday in federal court in Central Islip to charges that he caused the death of two patients by overprescribing the painkiller oxycodone.
Dr. William Conway, 69, carried a brown file folder in his left hand and never looked toward the audience, where about a dozen supporters sat during his arraignment on two counts of distribution...
