HAUPPAUGE, NY (October 1, 2009) - Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that Michael Chait, M.D., an Amagansett physician charged in 2007 with writing hundreds of illegal prescriptions for patients from the Bronx and Manhattan, was sentenced to 3 years in prison followed by 5 years of post-release supervision. On April 3, 2009, Chait, 48, pleaded guilty to Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the Second Degree, Conspiracy in the Second Degree, and Grand Larceny in the Second Degree, all felonies. Since his arrest, Chait has been held in the Suffolk County Correctional Center on $500,000 bail. He was sentenced today before Suffolk County Court Judge C. Randall Hinrichs. Chait previously surrendered his license to practice medicine.