Lawyers for convicted Columbia University gynecologist Robert Hadden on Thursday asked a judge not to throw the book at him when he’s sentenced later this month. Hadden, who a jury found guilty in January of enticing patients from out of state to abuse in medical settings, says he’s paid for his crimes and should serve no more than three years. His federal public defender Deirdre von Dornum .
Among the women who Hadden victimized at Columbia University or NY-Presbyterian was Evelyn Yang, whose husband, Andrew Yang, ran unsuccessfully as a Democrat.
Robert Hadden, 64, was convicted after less than a day of deliberations at a two-week trial in which nine former patients described how he abused them sexually during examinations
Federal prosecutors in New York began laying out their case Monday against Robert Hadden, a former gynecologist accused of sexually abusing scores of patients over nearly two decades.