Marvin Moy, NYC doctor charged by feds, vanishes after alleged LI boat accident
A Manhattan doctor charged by federal authorities in a massive health fraud scheme mysteriously vanished in an alleged dead-of-night boating accident off the Long Island coast earlier this month.
Friends of Dr. Marvin Moy told The Post they’re left with unanswered questions about the alleged accident that apparently flung Moy overboard after he and his passenger collided with a larger vessel about 25 miles off the coast of Fire Island.
Moy’s boat, the Sure Shot, sank and rescuers reported debris and an oil sheen in the water, the Coast Guard said.
“We’ve got unresolved questions. We do not know what happened,” said one of Moy’s close friends, who asked not to be identified.
Moy and the passenger — whose identity is not known to his friends — set off in the fishing boat late at night on Oct. 12, according to a statement from the Coast Guard.
The Coast Guard said it got a report of an “alleged collision” involving Moy’s boat and a “large vessel” soon after midnight Oct. 13.
“The other person was recovered while Marvin remained missing,” a Coast Guard spokesperson said.
“We conducted boat and helicopter searches for over 30 hours covering 4,830 nautical miles, finding only the Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon that he was allegedly holding when he was last seen,” they added.
The search was called off the next day, but the agency is conducting an investigation into the incident.
Moy’s friends told The Post the circumstances around his disappearance are troubling.
While Moy — whose Manhattan apartment looked more like a fishing cabin than an Upper East Side flat — loved the water, it’s unusual he’d be so far out at sea after midnight mid-week, one said.
The passenger he was with was also apparently not a close friend of Moy’s, but someone he knew from the Long Island boating community that’s a “small clique of people,” the friend added.
“I would obviously like for my friend to be found. There’s still a chance he’s shipwrecked on some small rock,” the friend said.
Beyond that, the friend added, “everyone would just want answers.”
In January, Moy was hit with federal charges in Manhattan for alleged involvement in a sprawling, $100 million no-fault health care fraud scheme.
As part of the scam, Moy allegedly conspired with a co-defendant and agreed to conduct “painful electrodiagnostic testing” on patients who didn’t need the procedure, federal authorities charged.
Moy, who maintained his innocence, was due in court about a week after his disappearance.
At an Oct. 19 hearing, his attorney told Judge Paul Gardephe they’d been in contact with a legal representative from the Coast Guard, who said Moy is not considered dead until the investigation ends.
“The representative indicated that he would keep us apprised of any developments and that, ultimately, a report would be issued and that we would be provided such a report,” the lawyer said.
Nicholas Biase, a spokesman for the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, said the government’s probe of the disappearance is ongoing.
