A Brooklyn he pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide” plastic surgeon accused of killing a former model in a botched liposuction procedure pleaded guilty Wednesday in exchange for a wrist-slap two-months behind bars.
Dr. Oleg Davie, 53, also falsified the medical forms of his victim, Isel Pineda, 51 to cover up his recklessness, prosecutors said.
“You knew she had a heart condition but you performed the surgery anyway, didn’t you?” prosecutor Patrick Cappock asked in Brooklyn Supreme Court.
“Yes,” Davie answered.
Davie was initially charged with a top count of manslaughter, but that charge was dropped inn exchange for the plea to criminally negligent homicide and falsifying records. Criminally negligent homicide can carry a sentence of up to four years if convicted at trial.
The doctor, who surrendered his medical license last year, refused to offer his condolences or say sorry to the family of former model, when the Post approached him as he walked out of the courtroom.
“What happened here is tragic but not criminal,” said his lawyer, James DiPietro.
Davie ignored the medical form on which the beautiful Pineda had indicated she’d undergone a heart transplant in 2004 — performed by TV’s Dr. Oz — and he falsified the document after she died, prosecutors said when Davie was arrested in March 2013.
When the 5-foot-9, 130-pound Pineda went into cardiac arrest after the 2012 surgery and collapsed in Davie’s Brooklyn office, he took her medical-history form and removed the line where she had alerted him of the transplant, prosecutors said.
A lawyer representing Pineda’s family said the family wouldn’t comment on the plea deal and agreed upon 60-day sentence, but last year her ex-husband, Jeffrey Mayer said, “She was stunning. She would walk into a room and the music would stop,” adding that seeing Davie “brought all the pain and all the realness back.”
The state Department of Health restricted Davie to cosmetic medicine in 2011 and fined him $100,000 for past negligence.
Judge Danny Chun said he wouldn’t hit Davie with over 60 days or five years’ probation when he sentences the doctor on June 24.