Authorities: Cardiologist Tried to Have Rival Doctor Killed

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Authorities: Cardiologist Tried to Have Rival Doctor Killed

MINEOLA, N.Y. — Apr 15, 2015, 7:34 PM ET
By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press

A Long Island cardiologist had the office of another doctor torched, then hired someone who turned out to be an undercover police officer in a failed attempt to have the doctor hurt or killed, authorities said Wednesday.

Dr. Anthony J. Moschetto allegedly used drugs, guns and blank prescriptions as currency while trying to have the other doctor harmed amid a professional dispute, investigators said. Moschetto first allegedly hired two men to set fire to the man's office; it happened beneath a sprinkler and damage was minimal, prosecutors said.

"He was willing to pay $5,000 to have him beaten and put in the hospital for a couple of months and pay $20,000 to have him killed," Nassau County Assistant District Attorney Anne Donnelly said of Moschetto's intentions. "He wanted to put him out of business so he could get his business." Acting District Attorney Madeline Singas said "luckily for this victim," Moschetto was stopped.

Investigators who went to Moschetto's home in Sands Point on Long Island's Gold Coast — one of the nation's wealthiest areas — found a weapons cache in a secret room that was accessed through a motorized bookshelf, they said. The weapons, which included dozens of knives, guns and a hand grenade, were displayed at a news conference Wednesday. Possible charges for the stash have not yet been announced.


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Dr. Anthony J. Moschetto

In this April 15, 2015, photo provided by the Nassau County Police
Department in Mineola, N.Y., Dr. Anthony J. Moschetto is shown. [/center]

[shenmue]

1. Wow

[7962]

2. Looks more like a bookie than a doctor! nt

[Unexploded Scotsman]

4. Looks more like a Soprano than Anything

And I mean that in the strictly operatic sense, of course!

[7962]

12. Ha! Yep, thats a better comparison

[forest444]

3. A normal doctor's heartbeat: ba-dum, ba-dum.

Dr. Moschetto's heartbeat:

Bada-bing, bada-boom.

[Hoyt]

5. Physicians can be quite competitive. It's not uncommon for them to turn other

docs in for trumped up fraud or quality issues. Murder seems excessive, but doesn't surprise me.

[secondwind]

6. that face does not instill confidence in me...

[Beakybird]

7. lucky he didn't pull off this stent

It's poetic justice that the victim will get the perpetrator's business.

[Ron Obvious]

8. He sounds quite heartless

Sorry...

[quadrature]

9. more work for other doctors

more work for people in law enforcement.

I love a happy ending.

[Larry Engels]

10. Weapons cache in secret room behind a motorized bookshelf?

Dr. Moschetto is living out his own personal movie script.

[DeSwiss]

11. Now that's what I call Violating the Hippocratic Oath!

- Shit! I guess if you're gonna violate it, there's no point dicking around.

Blood-brothers (on the other hand), are governed by a different coda than doctors are. In the following case it was: ''Cain Setup Abel''

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K&R

[olddots]

13. we think of doctors as saints

well maybe we used to .