CRIMES
Eric Schwietering, Wisconsin Psychiatrist, sentenced
Eric Schwietering Pioneer Press Psychiatrist ordered to stand trial in sex case --Excerpt WAUKESHA, Wis.—A psychiatrist already serving four years of probation for possession of child pornography has been ordered to stand trial on a sexual assault charge. The move came after a 14-year-old boy tearfully testified that Eric B. Schwietering, 41, of Milwaukee, molested him during a counseling session in 2006. The boy testified at a preliminary hearing Friday that Schwietering questioned him during a counseling session about his sexual habits and asked him to disrobe July 10, 2006. The boy said that, when he declined, Schwietering forced him [...]
Larry Anderson, Penticton psychiatrist, More Jail
Larry Anderson Castanet Psychiatrist Gets More Time November 22, 2006 -- Excerpt A former Penticton psychiatrist has been given an additional jail sentence. Larry Anderson is currently serving an 18-month sentence on charges of sexual and indecent assault against former female patients between the late 70's and 90's. On Tuesday, he plead guilty in Penticton provincial court to assaulting his wife at their home near Princeton in 2005. The assault took place while Anderson was out on bail awaiting sentencing on sexual and indecent assault charges...
Naseem Chaudhry, Downers Grove Psychiatrist, Indicted
United States Attorney U.S. Department of Justice Northern District of Illinois FORMER MEDICAL DIRECTOR AT ROCK CREEK PSYCHIATRIC FACILITY INDICTED IN ALLEGED $875,000 HEALTH CARE FRAUD SCHEME FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FRIDAY JUNE 30, 2006 CHICAGO – A suburban psychiatrist who was the medical director at the shuttered Rock Creek Center in Lemont was indicted for allegedly defrauding Medicare of more than $875,000 by falsely claiming to have provided services that he never performed and billing for more complex services than he actually provided. The defendant, Dr. Naseem Chaudhry, allegedly admitted patients to the privately-owned Rock Creek psychiatric facility, routinely kept [...]
Eric Ressner
Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) PHARMACIST, PSYCHIATRIST ARE INDICTED; TWO ACCUSED IN $9.9 MILLION INSURANCE FRAUD --Excerpt Federal prosecutors Monday charged a pharmacist and a psychiatrist with orchestrating a multimillion-dollar insurance fraud scheme out of a Palm Beach Gardens pharmacy, court documents show... Two physicians, including psychiatrist Dr. Eric Ressner of Palm Beach Gardens, helped Sutera substantiate the fake prescriptions, while a chiropractor and a pharmacy technician assisted in the conspiracy, prosecutors said. Sutera provided Ressner with “cash payments delivered in envelopes on a regular basis” and a $34,000 check in August 2002 for a down payment on Ressner’s Bocce [...]
George Frimpong, Ghana Psychiatrist, convicted
George Frimpong GhanaWeb Psychiatrist fined for arson August 26, 2005 -- Excerpt George Frimpong, a Ghanaian psychiatrist based in London was on Friday fined two million cedis by a circuit court in Kumasi for setting a house on fire. Frimpong, who was convicted on his own plea of guilty... She said sometime in 2004, neighbours saw signs of smoke coming out of Madam Ofori's house but managed to put it under control. Madam Ofori made a report to the police but before the suspects could be traced Frimpong had gone back to London, the prosecutor said. Chief Inspector Oseiwaah [...]
Crusader Pressed State For List Of Possible Violations
Tampa Tribune Crusader Pressed State For List Of Possible Violations --Excerpt Save for the persistence of one person, Ken Kramer, of Clearwater, the Florida Department of Health might not be telling prosecutors about alleged sexual improprieties involving psychotherapists... Kramer began wondering last year whether the health department was complying with a 1992 state law requiring it to notify local prosecutors of cases involving alleged sexual contact between therapists and patients and sent the department a public records request on the subject in July. "They couldn't find anything" at first, Kramer says. He kept at it. Finally, the department sent him [...]
Justin Psaila, Nanuet psychiatrist, Charged
Justin Psaila The Journal News (Westchester County, NY) Doctor charged in $1 million insurance fraud case By Nancy Cacioppo September 10, 2004 -- Excerpt A Nanuet psychiatrist has been accused of defrauding government insurers of more than $1 million by billing for services never rendered, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced yesterday. Dr. Justin Psaila, who has a private practice in his home, was arraigned Wednesday before Rockland County Court Judge Kenneth Resnick on a 23-count indictment. Psaila was charged with two counts of second-degree grand larceny, one count of first-degree scheme to defraud and 20 counts of first-degree offering [...]
George Kubski defense: “My Brain was Shrinking”
Psychiatrist George Kubski Palm Beach Post (Florida) PSYCHIATRIST GETS YEAR FOR PATIENT'S PILL DEATH --Excerpt He killed one of his patients by prescribing more than 20,000 pills in three months. On Friday, facing 15 years in prison, Dr. George Kubski could offer no explanation. But fellow physicians testified they had solved the mystery of how a respected psychiatrist with an unblemished record became a pill mill for at least one patient: Brain damage. And a judge agreed. In a hearing full of surprises, Circuit Judge Richard Wennet allowed attorney Patricia Woods Marin, who represents the child of the deceased, to [...]
Allan Umar-Khitab, Cambridge Psychiatrist, Suspended
Allan Umar-Khitab Hamilton Spectator (Ontario, Canada) HOSPITAL SUSPENDS PSYCHIATRIST FOLLOWING SEX CHARGES By Prithi Yelaja and Liz Monteiro July 28, 1999 -- Excerpt A prominent local psychiatrist charged with 11 counts of sexual offences against boys has been suspended from Cambridge Memorial Hospital. Dr. Allan Umar-Khitab, who was commonly known as Allan Khitab, had been practising in Cambridge since June 1989. He was the only full-time psychiatrist on staff at the hospital's mental health clinic. Khitab's arrest leaves hundreds, and possibly thousands, of patients in the lurch and hospital officials scrambling to find help. Reached at his home in [...]
Nestor Garcia, Florida Psychiatrist, Sentenced to Prison
Nestor Garcia The Tampa Tribune Psychiatrist sentenced to prison April 8, 1998 By Keith Morelli -- Excerpt A judge sentences a psychiatrist to prison for billing Medicare and Medicaid for services he never performed. A psychiatrist convicted of submitting bills of more than $ 4.5 million to Medicare and Medicaid between 1994 and 1995 was sentenced Tuesday to 6+ years in federal prison. Nestor A. Garcia was found guilty at a December health care fraud trial. Garcia was ordered to repay nearly $ 1.7 million to federal health care programs. Garcia, 43, also was ordered to serve three years [...]