CRIMES
Joanna Wolicki-Shannon, North Carolina Psychiatrist, arrested in illegal drug ring (Adderall, Vyvanse, Ritalin etc.)
WITN NEW INFO: Kinston psychiatrists could face jail time in prescription drug scheme March 18, 2015 Psychiatrist Joanna Wolicki-Shannon Two local doctors accused of involvement in an illegal prescription drug ring made their first court appearances on Wednesday. Dr. Walter Shannon and Dr. Joanna Wolicki-Shannon were given a second court date of April 1. The judge advised the couple that their charges are serious enough to get prison time. State and federal agents raided the Shannon's Kinston medical office, East Cove Psychiatric Services, on Tuesday. The SBI accuses the doctors of writing bogus prescriptions which were filled at pharmacies [...]
Walter Shannon, North Carolina Psychiatrist, Trafficked in thousands of fraudulent prescription drugs
WITN NEW INFO: Kinston psychiatrists could face jail time in prescription drug scheme March 18, 2015 Psychiatrist Walter Shannon Two local doctors accused of involvement in an illegal prescription drug ring made their first court appearances on Wednesday. Dr. Walter Shannon and Dr. Joanna Wolicki-Shannon were given a second court date of April 1. The judge advised the couple that their charges are serious enough to get prison time. State and federal agents raided the Shannon's Kinston medical office, East Cove Psychiatric Services, on Tuesday. The SBI accuses the doctors of writing bogus prescriptions which were filled at pharmacies [...]
Judge orders Surrender of Psychiatrist Barry Kaplowitz to prison authorities immediately – lied about providing “treatment” to patients he never saw
Miami Herald Jurors convict South Florida psychiatrist and patient recruiter in Medicare fraud trial By Jay Weaver February 21, 2015 Hollywood Pavilion, a psychiatric facility in Broward County, Florida On Friday morning, psychiatrist Barry Kaplowitz was wearing a beige sweater to brace himself against the unusually cold weather and possibly the verdict that awaited him in a Miami federal courtroom on Medicare fraud charges. Just after noon, following one week of deliberations, the jury convicted the Aventura doctor of lying about providing treatment for purported mental health patients that he never saw at Hollywood Pavilion, a psychiatric facility [...]
Barry Kaplowitz, Miami psychiatrist with a “robotic” signature, signed off on thousands of bogus treatments – Jury Deliberates his Fate
Miami Herald Jurors to decide fate of South Florida psychiatrist, others in Medicare fraud trial By Jay Weaver February 16, 2015 Psychiatrist Barry Kaplowitz Barry Kaplowitz was a psychiatrist with a “robotic” signature who signed off on thousands of bogus treatments at a Hollywood psychiatric facility that bilked Medicare for millions — even when he was out of the country, prosecutors say. “It’s not just any kind of signing; it’s robo-signing,” Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Warren declared during closing arguments at his Miami federal trial. “He often signed in the wrong place...where the patient was supposed to sign,” Warren [...]
Mansour Sanjar and Cyrus Sajadi, Texas Psychiatrists, Sentenced to Prison, Defrauded Medicare
Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 12, 2015 Psychiatrists, Mansour Sanjar, 81, Cyrus Sajadi, 67 (R) Physician Owners of Mental Health Clinic Sentenced for $97 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme The two physician owners of a Houston-area mental health clinic were sentenced today to 148 months and 120 months respectively for their roles in a $97 million Medicare fraud scheme. A group home owner who sent residents to the clinic in exchange for kickbacks was also sentenced to 54 months in prison for her role. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s [...]
Sentencing date set for psychiatrist’s wife who tried to bribe his jury
Calgary Herald Sentencing date set for woman who tried to bribe jury at husband's trial By Daryl Slade January 16, 2015 Connvicted Sex Offender Psychiatrist Aubrey Levin and Jury Bribing wife Erica Levin Erica Levin will have to wait another couple of months to be sentenced for attempting to bribe a juror to acquit her husband, disgraced forensic psychiatrist Aubrey Levin, of sexually assaulting his male patients. The sentencing date was set on Friday in Court of Queen’s Bench for March 26 for the 71-year-old woman, who was convicted of the charge by a jury on Oct. 9. [...]
Christopher Palacios, Mass. Psychiatrist, charged with pushing, kicking and sexually assaulting his wife
The Sun Chronicle Psychiatrist given board reprimand By David Linton January 15, 2015 Psychiatrist Christopher Palacios ATTLEBORO - A psychiatrist at Arbour-Fuller Hospital has been given a reprimand by the state Board of Registration in Medicine as a result of his arrest in 2012 on domestic assault charges. Dr. Christopher M. Palacios was arrested in 2012 following an altercation with his then wife, and subsequently admitted sufficient facts to charges of misdemeanor assault and battery in 2013. The charges were dismissed last year after Palacios completed a court-ordered anger management course, the board announced. The board reprimanded Palacios "for [...]
Claudio Dicovsky, NJ Psychiatrist, “Sentenced” to lame “house arrest” for accepting $200,000 in Bribes
Bergen Dispatch Fort Lee Psychiatrist Sentenced to One Year of House Arrest and Three Years' Probation By Staff January 05, 2015 Claudio Dicovsky, 52, of Fort Lee, New Jersey, a doctor with a practice in Paterson, New Jersey, was sentenced today to three years’ probation, which includes one year of house arrest with electronic monitoring, for accepting more than $200,000 in bribes from Parsippany, New Jersey-based Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS) as part of a long-running scheme operated by the lab, its president, and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Dicovsky previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge [...]
Pralay Mazumdar, psychiatrist, told patient she was sicker than she was to prolong her hospital stay
Herald Sun Suspended jail sentence for psychiatrist who defrauded WorkCover Rebecca David Dandenong Leader December 19, 2014 Psychiatrist Pralay Mazumdar A PSYCHIATRIST who told a patient she was sicker than she was to prolong her hospital stay has received a six-month suspended sentence. Pralay Mazumdar, 60, pleaded guilty to six charges under the Accident Compensation Act relating to dealings with patients at a Dandenong clinic between March 5, 2012, and September 9, 2013. The Glen Waverley man’s charges included fraudulently obtaining payments, knowingly providing false information and providing false information. Ringwood Magistrates’ Court this month heard Mazumdar, while dealing [...]
Indian Psychiatrists Protest the Arrests of Two of their Own – arrests “sent shockwaves in the entire psychiatry community”
Indian Express Psychiatrists protest arrest of two colleagues, stop prescribing drug to addicts By Raakhi Jagga December 23, 2014 Psychiatrists Protest the Arrest of Two of their Brethern Following the arrest of two psychiatrists on December 19, the Punjab and Chandigarh branch of Indian Psychiatric Society (PUNCIPS) has stopped prescribing buprenorphine drug which, as per doctors, is scientifically approved treatment worldwide for patients who are addicts of opium, smack or heroin or also called as opioid addicts. The same tablets were seized from the arrested doctors. Members of PUNCIPS maintained that even they were treating the addicts with the [...]