The Seattle Times
May 2, 1996, Thursday, Final Edition
PSYCHIATRIST, WIFE ACCUSED OF FRAUD

TACOMA – A Tacoma psychiatrist and his wife have been charged with taking part in a conspiracy that defrauded state and federal agencies out of up to $ 4 million a month.
Dr. Jessy Ang provided about 200 patients, most of them Southeast Asian refugees, with false diagnoses of mental illnesses to qualify them for welfare and Social Security benefits, the federal charge alleges.
The charge says Ang overbilled the state Department of Social and Health Services for dozens of individual 60-to-90-minute diagnostic sessions with the patients. In reality, the charge claims, those sessions lasted only a few minutes or were conducted en masse.
Ang and his wife, Editha, who also was charged, appeared yesterday before U.S. Magistrate J. Kelley Arnold. The judge allowed the couple to leave jail after they promised to deliver deeds to property they own as security for their return to court on May 10.
The arrest of the Angs resulted from more than three years of investigation by a task force of local and national law-enforcement agencies.