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Aviel Goodman, Saint Paul Psychiatrist, Child Porn
Aviel Goodman Press Release Saint Paul Psychiatrist Pleads Guilty To Receipt Of Child Pornography Friday, July 20, 2018 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of AVIEL LI GOODMAN, 62, to one count of receipt of child pornography. GOODMAN, who was initially charged on February 20, 2018, pleaded guilty earlier today before U.S. District Judge Joan N. Ericksen in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota. According to the defendant’s guilty plea and documents filed in court, on multiple occasions between March 1, 2015, and August 27, 2017, [...]
Matthew Hopkins, Wyoming Psychiatrist, Sentenced
Matthew Hopkins Associated Press Jury convicts former Wyoming psychiatrist --Excerpt CODY, Wyo. (AP) - A former Wyoming psychiatrist has been found guilty of several charges stemming from a crash that injured another person. A jury in Cody convicted Matthew Hopkins of intentional misuse of a toxic product, controlled substance DUI and aggravated assault. The Cody Enterprise reports that District Judge David Park sentenced Hopkins to 18 to 36 months of prison, with credit for a little over two months he served last summer in jail. Prosecutors said Hopkins had been inhaling compressed air before the wreck occurred on March 14, [...]
Alain Pidolle, French psychiatrist, sentenced
Alain Pidolle Google translation: 20 MINUTES Strasbourg: A former psychiatrist sentenced to 13 years in prison for rape and sexual assault May 20, 2018 -- Excerpt The hearing was held behind closed doors. A former psychiatrist accused of rape and sexual assault by former patients was sentenced on Saturday to 13 years in prison by the Bas-Rhin Assize Court . Alain Pidolle was found guilty of raping two of his former patients and sexual assault on three others. Aggravating circumstances for these acts, "committed to a vulnerable person by a person abusing the authority conferred on him by his position", [...]
Jo Erik Brøyn, Norway Psychiatrist, sentenced
Jo Erik Brøyn The Sunday Guardian A case exposing the double standards of Norway’s CPS By Nibedita Saha May 12, 2018 -- Excerpt One of Norway’s top child-protection policy experts, Jo Erik Brøyn, was sentenced to prison under the country’s child pornography laws. His arrest further discredits Norway’s Child Protection Services. A child psychiatrist and top child protection expert, 56-year-old Jo Erik Brøyn, who in 2010 became the single father to two Indian surrogate babies, has been sentenced to nearly two years’ jail under Norway’s child pornography laws. Brøyn was found guilty of possessing and sharing an enormous quantity of [...]
William Lewek, NY Psychiatrist, Back to Prison
Democrat and Chronicle William Lewek, who admitted to burying body, back in jail on parole violations --Excerpt William Lewek, the former psychiatrist who admitted to burying the body of a dead man in his backyard, has been returned to jail on three parole violations. Lewek, 66, is accused of possessing hydrocodone and failing to seek a mental health evaluation. There are two violations related to the mental health issue, according to Lewek's attorney, Matthew Parrinello. Lewek, who has lost his medical license, pleaded guilty in February 2015 to burying the body of 32-year-old Matthew Straton in the backyard of [...]
James Cowan, Ridgewood psychiatrist, license revoked
James Cowan The Record (Bergen County, NJ) RIDGEWOOD DOCTOR LOSES HIS LICENSE --Excerpt A Ridgewood psychiatrist who worked from a home office had his license revoked, a week after he pleaded guilty to prescribing Adderall, officials said Friday. Dr. James Cowan Jr.'s license to practice medicine was taken from him by the state Medical Examiner Office, records show. Cowan pleaded guilty in Superior Court Nov. 30 to illegally prescribing Adderall. "Instead of doing his part to help fight the scourge of addiction, Dr. Cowan exacerbated the problem by dispensing habit-forming drugs to patients without justification," said state Attorney General Christopher [...]
Julian Kent, Aussie Psychiatrist, banned for life
Julian Kent The Advertiser (source:https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/) BEAST ON THE COUCH November 18, 2017 By Nigel Hunt -- Excerpt An Adelaide psychiatrist who sexually abused three of his vulnerable patients has been banned for life, after a lengthy investigation by police and the state's medical board. Dr Julian Kent, right, pleaded guilty to professional misconduct over the shocking abuse, which happened over a 12-year period and inflicted further psychological damage to his victims. In one of the worst cases of misconduct uncovered in the profession in Adelaide, the SA Health Practitioners Tribunal permanently disqualified Dr Kent from applying for registration after [...]
Dan Nicolau, psychiatrist, Tennessee – probation for two years
Psychiatrist Dan Nicolau Dan Nicolau Knoxville News Sentinel 3 ET doctors have licenses placed on probation, state says By Kristi L Nelson Published 4:31 p.m. ET Oct. 23, 2017 | Updated 2:50 p.m. ET July 10, 2018 -- Excerpt Three Upper East Tennessee doctors have had their licenses put on probation, said the Tennessee Department of Health. One, psychiatrist Dr. Dan Nicolau of Johnson City, prescribed narcotics to a woman “not pursuant to a doctor-patient relationship” and entered her home uninvited, according to state records... Nicolau will pay $2,000 in civil penalties, in addition to the costs of prosecuting [...]
Kenneth Stanko, Squirrel Hill Psychiatrist, sentenced
Psychiatrist Kenneth Stanko PRESS RELEASE Pittsburgh Psychiatrist Sentenced to Prison for Health Care Fraud, Illegally Distributing Oxycodone Friday, August 11, 2017 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Pennsylvania PITTSBURGH- A Squirrel Hill psychiatrist has been sentenced in federal court to a year and a day in prison, followed by three years of supervised release including 12 months of community confinement, six months of home detention and 500 hours of community service, and was ordered to pay $13,000 in restitution, on charges of possession with intent to distribute and distribution of Oxycodone, a Schedule II controlled substance, and [...]
Marshall Hubsher, Sands Point Psychiatrist, sentenced
Marshall Hubsher Long Island Business News Former psychiatrist sentenced in attempted jury tampering, burglary case --Excerpt A former psychiatrist has been sentenced in a case involving attempted jury tampering and burglary, authorities said Wednesday. Marshall Hubsher of Sands Point was sentenced to one to three years after he pleaded guilty in July to third-degree burglary and two counts of first-degree attempted tampering with a juror... While Hubsher was on trial in a separate case in 2016, he entered private jury rooms and placed signs there with falsified jury instructions in an effort to tamper with a sitting jury deliberating on [...]