CRIMES
Florida Psychiatrist Jerome Feldman Sent to Prison for 16 years – cheated “seriously ill people out of $400,000 with false promises of organ transplants in the Philippines, where he was tracked down by the FBI”
The Post Standard (Syracuse, NY) HE GETS PRISON FOR ORGAN-TRANSPLANT CON; JEROME FELDMAN, WHOSE ESTRANGED WIFE LIVES IN BALDWINSVILLE, LURED FIVE SICK PEOPLE TO PHILIPPINES. By John O'Brien May 28, 2010 Psychiatrist Jerome Feldman A former psychiatrist was sent to prison for nearly 16 years Thursday for duping seriously ill people out of $400,000 with false promises of organ transplants in the Philippines. U.S. District Judge David Hurd sentenced Jerome Feldman to 15 years and 8 months in prison and ordered him to repay $2 million to the victims of the phony organ-transplant scheme and an earlier Medicare fraud [...]
Maryann Weisman, Penn. Psychiatrist, Arrested – kept writing prescriptions after her license was suspended
Lehighvalleylive.com Doc wrote prescriptions after license was suspended, AG says By Sarah Cassi September 23, 2015 Psychiatrist Maryann Weisman Two Lehigh County women were arrested a week ago for alleged prescription drug crimes, the state Attorney General's office said. Dr. Maryann T. Weisman, 54, of Whitehall Township, and Stacey A. Zuniga, 46, of Allentown, were arrested Wednesday by agents with the attorney general's office. Phone numbers for the women could not be located. Attorneys have not entered appearances for the pair yet, records show. Weisman, of the 800 block of Jefferson Street, is a psychiatrist accused of issuing [...]
UK Psychiatrist Ovais Badat, already in prison for supplying cocaine – now exposed for his sordid stash of child images and videos
Bristol Live Cocaine-supplying ADHD psychiatrist further jailed for child abuse images Ovais Badat is already in prison for supplying drugs and making out false prescriptions but has now been exposed for his sordid stash of images and videos By Geoffrey Bennett July 9, 2018 Psychiatrist Ovais Badat A Hengrove-based consultant psychiatrist has been jailed for downloading images of children being sexually abused. And his ten-month term is to run after the conclusion of a current two-and-a-half year term he is serving for other offences. Dr Ovais Badat worked at an adult ADHD service of Wiltshire Partnership Mental Health [...]
Melvin Pisetzner, Penfield, NY Psychiatrist, charged with patronizing a prostitute, a 19-year-old male former patient
WHEC-TV Rochester, New York Psychiatrist Melvin Pisetzner A 67-year-old Penfield man has been arrested and charged with patronizing a prostitute in the third-degree. The investigation that led to the arrest of Melvin Pisetzner began when a 19-year-old male told police he had met Pisetzner in an online chat. Police say Pisetzner posed as a 55-year-old man and offered to pay the teen a sum of money to participate in a sex act with him. The 19-year-old is a former patient of Pisetzner – a psychiatrist, but police do not believe Pisetzner knew that at the time of their online [...]
James Watt, NY Psychiatrist – his “gas therapy” killed a patient – pleaded guilty to homicide
Midland Daily News New York Psychiatrist Pleads Guilty April 23, 2002 Psychiatrist James Watt A psychiatrist whose "gas therapy" killed a patient last year pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide and agreed to stop practicing medicine in a deal that will keep him out prison. James Watt, 73, admitted that he caused the death of Leah Grove, 38, in his office on April 19, 2001. In exchange for pleading guilty Tuesday and giving up his medical license, Watt got a sentence of conditional discharge, a form of court-supervised probation. Watt had been treating Grove for mild depression. His plea [...]
Lyda Monte, New Jersey Psychiatrist, pleads guilty to Fraud – faces up to five years in prison, and a possible $250,000 fine
Courier Post Camden psychiatrist pleads guilty in Medicaid fraud case By Kim Mulford May 14, 2018 CAMDEN - A psychiatrist for Nueva Vida Behavioral Health Center admitted Monday that she signed fake treatment plans meant to mislead New Jersey Medicaid inspectors, announced U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito. Dr. Lyda Monte, 78, of Bellmawr, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Noel L. Hillman in Camden federal court to making false statements to a health care benefit program. Nueva Vida provided mental health services to the Camden Hispanic community. Most of the nonprofit's patients were Medicaid beneficiaries. Between January 2010 and August 2016, [...]
Psychiatrist Lyndon Steinhaus Sued for medical malpractice – sexual relationship with patient
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Woman files suit against psychiatrist boyfriend after crime spree By Dan Benson July 20, 2008 Psychiatrist Lyndon Steinhaus Port Washington - A former Cedarburg woman who along with her psychiatrist boyfriend led police on a cross-country chase has filed a lawsuit against him alleging medical malpractice because the two began a sexual relationship while she was his patient. Darcy J. Bogenrief, 43, alleges in the lawsuit filed in Ozaukee County Circuit Court that she sought treatment in late 2001 or early 2002 from former Thiensville psychiatrist Lyndon K. Steinhaus, 48, the two began a sexual relationship [...]
Convicted war criminal, Psychiatrist Radovan Karadzic, appealing 40-year jail sentence
THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE UN judges to hear Karadzic appeal against 40-year jail term By AFP April 20, 2018 Psychiatrist Radovan Karadzic THE HAGUE: Once-feared Bosnian Serb leader, now convicted war criminal, Radovan Karadzic, on Monday launches his appeal before UN judges, seeking to overturn a 40-year jail term for abuses committed during Bosnia’s bloody 1990s conflict. Karadzic, 72, was sentenced to four decades behind bars in 2016 for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, arising from the Balkan country’s three-year war which killed 100,000 people and left 2.2 million others homeless. The former strongman — with his recognisable [...]
David Ruben, Tucson Psychiatrist, indicted on 26 felony charges alleging he illegally prescribed opioids to multiple patients
azcentral.com Tucson doctor charged with unlawfully prescribing opioids By Gabrielle Olivera April 4, 2018 Psychiatrist David Ruben A Tucson doctor has been indicted on 26 felony charges alleging he illegally prescribed opioids to multiple patients, the Arizona Attorney General's Office said Wednesday. Dr. David Alan Ruben, 70, a medical doctor and board certified psychiatrist, was prohibited from prescribing, administering or dispensing any Schedule 2 controlled substances for two years by the Arizona Medical Board in February 2016. Despite that order, Ruben continued prescribing Hydrocodone and Oxycodone to 11 different patients on 25 separate occasions between September 2016 and March [...]
Antonio Colotto, Italian Psychiatrist – being investigated for Forgery and Corruption
Ansa.It Peculiar, investigated former primary Psychiatry Power of attorney, irregular intramoenia and money for certified forgery Editorial Staff March 29, 2018 Psychiatrist Antonio Colotto Antonio Colotto , former director (now retired) of the Department of mental health of the Valle d'Aosta, is being investigated by the aostana prosecutor in an investigation for peculation , forgery and corruption . The ANSA has learned it. The hypothesis of the investigators is that he has withheld the money (which should have gone to the health care company) of some visits carried out under the freelance profession and received money in exchange for [...]