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Stephen Greer, Oklahoma VA Hospital Psychiatrist, Sentenced
Stephen Greer PRESS RELEASE Tulsa Man Sentenced To 21 Months For Tampering With Witness Thursday, October 25, 2018 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Oklahoma VA Psychiatrist Inappropriately Involved With Patient MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Stephen Lester Greer, age 58, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 21 months imprisonment and three years supervised release for Tampering With A Witness, Victim, Or Informant, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1512(b)(3). The charge arose from an investigation by the Department of Veterans Affairs - [...]
Riyaz Mazcuri, (Texas & Florida), psychiatrist, sentenced
Riyaz Mazcuri U.S. Department of Justice Press Release Houston Psychiatrist Sentenced to More Than 12 Years in Prison for Role in $155 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme Tuesday, September 4, 2018 For Immediate Release Office of Public Affairs A Houston psychiatrist was sentenced today to 150 months in prison for his role in a $155 million Medicare fraud scheme involving false and fraudulent claims for psychiatric services. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick of the Southern District of Texas, Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner of the FBI’s Houston [...]
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 [...]
Richard Hauser, Iowa Psychiatrist, Sentenced
Richard Hauser PRESS RELEASE Former Central Iowa Psychiatrist Sentenced to Two Months in Prison for Health Care Fraud Tuesday, February 28, 2017 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Iowa DES MOINES, IA – On February 28, 2017, Richard Lee Hauser, M.D., 67, formerly of the Grinnell, Iowa, area was sentenced by Senior United States District Court Judge Robert W. Pratt to two months in federal prison for two counts of health care fraud, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. The two-month sentences were ordered to be served at the same time. Hauser was also ordered to [...]
Sandra Vonderembse, Ohio psychiatrist, sentenced
Sandra Vonderembse PRESS RELEASE Psychiatrist sentenced to 18 months in prison for tax evasion Monday, November 21, 2016 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Ohio A psychiatrist from Oregon, Ohio, was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison for tax evasion, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon for the Northern District of Ohio, and Kathy A. Enstrom, Special Agent in Charge, IRS Criminal Investigation, Cincinnati Field Office. According to court records, from as early as 2005, Sandra Vonderembse failed to pay taxes [...]
Sharon Iglehart, Texas Psychiatrist, sentenced
Sharon Iglehart U.S. Department of Justice Press Release Houston Psychiatrist Sentenced to 144 Months in Prison for Role in $158 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme Friday, April 1, 2016 For Immediate Release Office of Public Affairs A Houston psychiatrist was sentenced today to 144 months in prison for her role in a $158 million Medicare fraud scheme involving false claims for mental health treatment. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson of the Southern District of Texas, Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner of the FBI’s Houston Field Office, Special Agent [...]
Michael Reinstein, Chicago psychiatrist, sentenced
Michael Reinstein PRESS RELEASE Chicago Psychiatrist Who Took Kickbacks to Prescribe Mental Health Medication Sentenced to Nine Months in Federal Prison Friday, March 11, 2016 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois CHICAGO — A Chicago psychiatrist was sentenced today to nine months in federal prison for accepting nearly $600,000 in fees and benefits from pharmaceutical companies in exchange for prescribing a medication to his patients. DR. MICHAEL J. REINSTEIN prescribed the drug Clozapine to thousands of elderly and indigent patients in Chicago-area nursing homes and hospitals. In exchange for his efforts, the pharmaceutical companies provided Dr. [...]
Abbie Ewell, Dallas psychiatrist, arrested for assault, psych license suspended “poses a continuing threat to public welfare”
Texas Medical Board Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 2, 2015 Media contact: Jarrett Schneider, 512-305-7018 Customer service: 512-305-7030 or 800-248-4062 TMB suspends Dallas physician On June 2, 2015, a disciplinary panel of the Texas Medical Board temporarily suspended, without notice, the Texas medical license of Abbie Ewell, M.D., after determining her continuation in the practice of medicine poses a continuing threat to public welfare. The suspension was effective immediately. The Board panel found that on May 6, 2015, the Board received an emergency referral from the Texas Physician Health Program (TXPHP) based on Dr. Ewell’s self-report of being unsafe [...]
Zahid Imran, Louisiana Psychiatrist, Sentenced
Zahid Imran PRESS RELEASE Louisiana Psychiatrist Sentenced to Serve More Than Seven Years in Prison for His Role in $258 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme Monday, August 25, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Office of Public Affairs A Louisiana psychiatrist was sentenced in federal court in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, today to serve 86 months in prison for his role in a $258.5 million Medicare fraud scheme involving partial hospitalization psychiatric services. He was further ordered to pay $43.5 million in restitution and to forfeit all proceeds from the fraudulent scheme. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, [...]
Mikhail Presman, Brooklyn Psychiatrist, Sentenced
Mikhail Presman PRESS RELEASE Former Veterans Affairs Psychiatrist Sentenced To 18 Months’ Imprisonment For Medicare Fraud Thursday, March 13, 2014 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York Dr. Mikhail Presman Falsely Claimed To Provide At-Home Services While Employed Full-Time At A VA Hospital BROOKLYN, NY – Dr. Mikhail L. Presman, a licensed psychiatrist employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), was sentenced today by Judge I. Leo Glasser in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York, to 18 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release for Medicare fraud. As part of [...]