Chief Medical Officer at SUNY Downstate charged with stealing $1.4M
Briefly

Dr. Michael Lucchesi, Chief Medical Officer at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, has been charged with grand larceny, falsifying records, and tax fraud, accused of stealing $1.448 million using a business credit card.
Lucchesi allegedly spent hundreds of thousands on personal expenses, such as travel, tuition, and luxury purchases, including $176,000 on his dog, much of it at an upscale dog resort.
Lucchesi was Chief Medical Officer at SUNY Downstate and Long Island College Hospital (LICH) during the controversial sale of LICH to a developer under then-Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Read at Brooklyn Eagle
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