Dr. Zhi Alan Cheng, a former physician at NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens, was sentenced to 24 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting or raping eight women between 2021 and 2022. Cheng used medical-grade sedatives to render his victims unconscious before committing the assaults. The plea deal, granted by Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz, was intended to protect the victims from the trauma of a public trial, though the judge acknowledged that Cheng's crimes warranted a long