New York man­u­fac­tur­ing su­per­vi­sor gets 1-year sen­tence for steal­ing drugs for horse dop­ing scheme

A Long Is­land man who worked at a drug man­u­fac­tur­ing site has been sen­tenced to a year in prison af­ter he was found guilty of steal­ing med­ical sup­plies and sell­ing them to horse train­ers and vet­eri­nar­i­ans at tracks around the state, in­clud­ing Bel­mont Park.

Gre­go­ry Set­ti­no, 60, of Beth­page, NY, was al­so or­dered to pay $847,093 in resti­tu­tion by the Judge Joan­na Sey­bert.

“To­day’s sen­tence is the fin­ish line of Gre­go­ry Set­ti­no’s crim­i­nal con­duct. He stole thou­sands of bot­tles of drugs, ig­nored safe han­dling prac­tices, and al­lowed them to be giv­en to hors­es at New York race­tracks with­out re­gard for the health of the an­i­mals – on­ly fo­cus­ing on his own per­son­al gain,” US at­tor­ney Bre­on Peace said in a state­ment. “Those who jeop­ar­dize drug safe­ty and risk the health of oth­ers will be held ac­count­able and face se­ri­ous con­se­quences.”

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