CRIMES
Jean Claude Pierre Hill, psychiatrist, sentenced to life
Jean Claude Pierre Hill Orlando Sentinel DOCTOR SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR MURDER April 29, 1992 Jean-Claude Pierre Hill, the Virginia physician whom a jury found guilty of first-degree murder but mentally ill in the random shooting death of an insurance executive, was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday. The verdict "guilty but mentally ill" means that Hill, 30, will receive psychiatric treatment for his illness until a doctor determines he is well enough to go into the general prison population. It took a jury less than two hours Monday to find Hill guilty of the murder of Cigna [...]
James White, Newport Beach psychiatrist, sentenced
James White Los Angeles Times PSYCHIATRIST SENTENCED FOR MOLESTING PATIENT;CRIME: THE JUDGE GIVES DR. JAMES WHITE SIX YEARS AND TACKS ON EIGHT MONTHS FOR HIS FAILURE TO APPEAR AT AN EARLIER SENTENCING. HE WAS ARRESTED LATER IN TEXAS. By Jerry Hicks January 10, 1991 -- Excerpt A judge sentenced Newport Beach psychiatrist James Harrington White to six years and eight months in prison Wednesday for sexually molesting a 29-year-old patient while the man was unconscious. White, 48, pleaded guilty last spring to two counts of sexual molestation stemming from one incident, which he had preserved on videotape. But the day [...]
Norman Ackerman, Manhattan psychiatrist, arrested
Norman Ackerman Newsday (New York) Psychiatric Clinic Charged In $ 1.3M Fraud By Gale Scott December 7, 1990 -- Excerpt A Roslyn psychiatrist and his two Manhattan partners were arrested yesterday and charged with $ 1.3 million in Medicaid fraud in connection with a defunct psychiatric clinic they operated on 121st Street in Harlem. Dr. Nathaniel Lehrman, 67, of Roslyn, Dr. Norman Ackerman, 65, who practiced psychiatry in Manhattan until his license was revoked for sexual misconduct, and their office manager, Robert Cohen, 51, are charged with fraudulently billing the state for 50,000 "phantom" psychotherapy sessions at the Lenox Psychiatric [...]
Simon Sanchez, West Islip psychiatrist, sentenced
Simon Sanchez Newsday (New York) Psychiatrist Gets Jail WEST ISLIP June 12, 1990 -- Excerpt A 62-year-old West Islip psychiatrist has been sentenced to 6 months in jail, 850 hours of community service and a $ 1,000 fine for overbilling Medicaid by exaggerating the amount of time he spent with Medicaid patients. The psychiatrist, Dr. Simon Sanchez, appeared yesterday before Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice Kenneth K. Rohl. He was jailed April 12 after pleading guilty to the crime of offering a false instrument for filing in the second degree, according to a news release from the Office [...]
Velma Powell, College Park psychiatrist, sentenced
Velma Powell The Washington Post College Park Psychiatrist, 2 Aides Sentenced in Prescription Case By Paul W. Valentine May 11, 1990 -- Excerpt A College Park psychiatrist and two of her assistants have been sentenced on charges of improperly prescribing drugs to scores of patients. A social worker and an unlicensed therapist working for the psychiatrist, Velma E.L. Powell, illegally wrote prescriptions on slips signed in advance by Powell, prosecutors said. The assistants also switched patients' medications and dosages for powerful tranquilizers and pain killers such as Valium and Demerol, often with little supervision by Powell, according to the prosecutors. [...]
Henry Spitzer, Ca Psychiatrist, house seized
Henry Spitzer The Associated Press Marshals Seize Home of Drug-Issuing Psychiatrist January 17, 1990 -- Excerpt U.S. marshals, acting under a federal law aimed at stripping drug dealers of their means of doing business, seized the house of a 73-year-old psychiatrist accused of illegally writing prescriptions there. Tuesday's seizure of the home of Henry Spitzer marked the first use of the forfeiture statute against a doctor in California, authorities said. Spitzer surrendered his license to practice last year after he was charged with 16 felonies in 1988. Undercover agents had concluded he was prescribing Valium and an amphetamine in cases [...]
Carlton Blake, Long Island psychiatrist, Pleads Guilty To Bilking Medicaid
Carlton Blake Newsday (New York) Doctor Pleads Guilty To Bilking Medicaid By Arnold Abrams November 16, 1989 -- Excerpt A Long Island psychiatrist has pleaded guilty to a charge of repeatedly inflating bills for treating a client he believed was a Medicaid patient. The psychiatrist, Dr. Carlton Blake, was arrested and arraigned Tuesday in First District Court, in Hauppauge, where he pleaded guilty before Judge Peter J. Newman to offering a false instrument for filing in the second degree. He also agreed to make restitution to Medicaid of $ 1,000 on the charge, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a [...]
Cesar Menez, Farmington Psychiatrist, accused of false insurance claims
Cesar Menez St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) DOCTOR ACCUSED OF FALSE INSURANCE CLAIMS DOCTOR IS CHARGED IN FALSE CLAIMS Farmington, Mo. (AP) October 13, 1989 --Excerpt A psychiatrist in Farmington has been charged with stealing from an insurance company. A year ago, he surrendered his Kansas psychiatric license after allegations of sexual misconduct were made against him. The psychiatrist, Dr. Cesar Menez, 52, was arrested Wednesday in Farmington after an indictment last month charged him with stealing from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City. A grand jury in Jackson County handed up the indictment Sept. 29, but prosecutors [...]
Redencio Bugaoan, Massapequa psychiatrist, charged with Medicaid fraud
Redencio Bugaoan Newsday (New York) Two Psychiatrists Accused of Fraud By Mara D. Rose September 22, 1989 -- Excerpt Two Long Island psychiatrists have been indicted on charges of Medicaid fraud for falsely inflating the amount of time they spent with patients from 1987 from 1988, officials said yesterday. Dr. Eugeniu Liteanu of Ridge was indicted on five counts of first-degree offering a false instrument for filing, while Dr. Redencio Bugaoan of Massapequa was charged with six counts of the same felony... Bugaoan was charged with submitting false reimbursement claims between Dec. 18, 1987, and July 11, 1988, stating that [...]
Eugeniu Liteanu, Long Island Psychiatrist, charged
Eugeniu Liteanu Newsday (New York) Two Psychiatrists Accused of Fraud By Mara D. Rose September 22, 1989 -- Excerpt Two Long Island psychiatrists have been indicted on charges of Medicaid fraud for falsely inflating the amount of time they spent with patients from 1987 from 1988, officials said yesterday. Dr. Eugeniu Liteanu of Ridge was indicted on five counts of first-degree offering a false instrument for filing, while Dr. Redencio Bugaoan of Massapequa was charged with six counts of the same felony... Liteanu was charged with filing fraudulent claims between July 7 and Oct. 26, 1987, and overstating session lengths [...]