Andrew Catalone, age 72, of Youngsville, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on April 9, 2026, to unlawfully possessing controlled substances with the intent to distribute them. Catalone was a nurse practitioner who owned a medical practice with offices in Auburn and Fulton, NY. He regularly prescribed controlled substances to his patients. He also collected from patients drugs that he had prescribed and which they had not used. Catalone was not authorized by federal law to collect these drugs. Catalone then distributed some of those drugs to other patients in the form of loose pills, without a prescription. Catalone failed to document these encounters in the patients’ medical files or record any treatment rationale for providing the controlled substances. He also failed to check the Internet System for Tracking Over-Prescribing (I-Stop), which is New York State’s prescription monitoring program, and which Catalone was required by state law to consult every time he dispensed a controlled substance. As Catalone knew, each distribution of returned pills was not for a legitimate medical purpose and not in the usual course of Catalone’s professional practice.