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Michael Menaster, CA psychiatrist, arrested on weapons charges
Los Angeles Times VENTURA COUNTY NEWS SIMI DOCTOR SUSPECTED OF WEAPONS VIOLATIONS By Daniel Yi May 2, 1999 Alerted by an alarmed tipster, Irvine police arrested a Simi Valley psychiatrist Saturday on suspicion of keeping an illegal assault weapon in his car and carrying a pistol to a college class. Dr. Michael Menaster, who is studying for an MBA at UCI's Graduate School of Management, was carrying the loaded semiautomatic pistol and also had two 9mm semiautomatic pistols and an AK-47 assault weapon in his car, said police Sgt. Phil Povey. Police arrested Menaster, 35, without incident near his Toyota [...]
Francisco Borges, Psychiatrist, Charged with Medicaid Fraud
The Associated Press May 7, 1999 Six employees of mental health clinic charged with Medicaid fraud Dateline: Miami Six employees of an outpatient mental health clinic were charged with engaging in an organized scheme to defraud the state out of Medicaid funds. The Florida Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit arrested two owners, an office manager, two counselors and a psychiatrist of the Prometeo Counseling Center, which remained closed Thursday, after an undercover investigation exposed the alleged scheme. An undercover agent, posing as a patient, attended group therapy sessions, which consisted of drinking Cuban coffee, eating white bread, watching television, [...]
UNCOVERED: DOCTOR CAN’T HIDE BEHIND SURGERY
Wisconsin State Journal By Cary Segall This is a case that hinged on circumcision-stantial evidence. A psychiatrist who went to extraordinary lengths to cover up having sex with a patient found his circumcision used against him by the 2nd District Court of Appeals Wednesday. Dr. Francois Saculla had the surgery in March 1991, about a year after his patient told an official at the Milwaukee County Mental Health Center that he had had sex with her. The patient said she had gone to Saculla\'s Racine home three times in late 1989 and once performed oral sex on him. Saculla, 65, [...]
Jessy Ang, Tacoma Psychiatrist
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 [...]
William Forte, Psychiatrist, Charges against him include charges, including larceny, attempted sodomy and sexual harassment
Los Angeles Times PENDLETON PSYCHIATRIST FACES COURT-MARTIAL ON SEX CLAIMS; MILITARY: A FORMER DIRECTOR OF A REHABILITATION UNIT IS ACCUSED OF LARCENY, SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ATTEMPTED SODOMY. HIS ATTORNEY CALLS THE CHARGES 'GROSS OVERCHARGING OF MISCONDUCT.' By Michael Granberry August 24, 1993 A Navy psychiatrist who formerly directed the drug and alcohol rehabilitation unit at Camp Pendleton faces a general court-martial today on a range of charges, including larceny, attempted sodomy and sexual harassment of clients and co-workers. The controversy swirling around Cmdr. William J. Forte, 41, is only the latest at Camp Pendleton, which last week was rocked by [...]
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William Aldrich, Ohio Psychiatrist, ordered to psychiatric treatment for sexual addiction
Columbus Dispatch (Ohio) STATE BOARD LIFTS PSYCHIATRIST'S LICENSE By Laurie Loscocco July 15, 1993 A Columbus psychiatrist who admitted having a sexual addiction and personality disorders will have his license suspended indefinitely under an agreement with the State Medical Board. The board yesterday approved a consent agreement with Dr. William T. Aldrich, who had offices at 28 W. Henderson Rd. As part of the agreement, Aldrich must get psychiatric treatment as deemed necessary by two evaluations - one of which will come from a board-approved psychiatrist and the other from a psychiatrist at the Center for Marital and Sexual Health [...]
Donald Dudley, Seattle Psychiatrist, Suspended after a report of providing weapons to suicidal boy
The Seattle Times BOARD SUSPENDS PSYCHIATRIST'S LICENSE -- HE'S ACCUSED OF LEAVING GUNS WITH SUICIDAL TEEN IN BELLEVUE HOTEL By Christy Scattarella June 25, 1993 The license of a prominent Seattle psychiatrist has been suspended after he allegedly provided weapons to a suicidal 15-year-old boy in a Bellevue hotel. A hearing on the administrative charges against Dr. Donald Dudley, 56, is expected within the next four weeks by the state Medical Disciplinary Board. Dudley has been in private practice as a neuro-psychiatrist, treating mental problems that arise from brain injuries. Board investigators, working in conjunction with Bellevue police, allege that [...]
Richard Payne
The Boston Globe State revokes 3 doctors' licenses in fraud convictions By Alison Bass, Globe Staff December 20, 1992 The state medical board has revoked the medical licenses of three Massachusetts physicians who had been convicted of separately filing fraudulent Medicaid claims for services totaling tens of thousands of dollars. Alexander Fleming, executive director of the Board of Registration in Medicine, said these license revocations should send a strong message to other physicians that Medicaid fraud or any kind of criminal conviction will not be tolerated by the state regulatory agency. According to information released yesterday, the board, at its [...]
Psychiatrist Gordon Maden jailed
Press Association PSYCHIATRIST JAILED FOR SEX ATTACKS ON PATIENTS SECTION: HOME NEWS A psychiatrist was jailed for three years today for a series of sex attacks on his teenage patients. For more than ten years the victims of Gordon Maden, 58, were too scared to report him because they were convinced no-one would believe them. But he was finally trapped when he abused a younster while another patient spied on them through a half open door. Hospital authorities launched an inquiry and suspended Maden. Today his 30-year long career came to an end when he was jailed after being convicted [...]