The brother of former Steelers doctor Richard Rydze testified today that Richard called him “out of the blue” one day in 2012 to ask him to lie about receiving thousands of Vicodin pills.
Robert Rydze, testifying for the government in the federal drug trial of Richard Rydze, said his brother called him at his home in Iowa in February 2012 to tell him that, “if anyone inquires,” to say that he had been prescribing Robert the pills to treat a foot infection that could lead to amputation.
“I said, ‘Richard, you’re too late,” Robert said.